Aeneid

American  

[ih-nee-id] / ɪˈni ɪd /

noun

1. a Latin epic poem by Vergil, recounting the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy.

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Aeneid British  

/ ɪˈniːɪd /

noun

1. an epic poem in Latin by Virgil relating the experiences of Aeneas after the fall of Troy, written chiefly to provide an illustrious historical background for Rome

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Aeneid Cultural  

1. An epic in Latin by Virgil. The Aeneid begins with the adventures of Aeneas and his men after the Trojan War (see also Trojan War) and ends when Aeneas gains control of the Italian peninsula, which will eventually become the base of the Roman Empire.

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Example Sentences

Hollywood, really, and it took me a while because in "The Aeneid" — and Danny Ryan is Aeneas — Aeneas goes into a cave shipwrecked in Carthage and there are murals of the Trojan War.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024

The inscription - a quote in Latin from Virgil's Aeneid - translated, read: "Perhaps one day it will be good to remember these things," and was signed "Robert".

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2023

Crawford quotes from Virgil’s Aeneid, in which Rome is designated by the god Jupiter himself as “an empire without limit” in either “space or time.”

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2023

Moments include walking into the illustrated poem of the Aeneid, as a nun talks to Andreas about its male-centric themes, or learning the story of Wicked Guerin while in a book’s illustration.

From Washington Times • Nov. 26, 2022

So Turner sat at a small desk by the window—a window closed tightly and imperiously against sea breezes exiled by fate—and began the first hundred lines of the Aeneid.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt