Misenus

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[mahy-see-nuhs] / maɪˈsi nəs /

noun

Roman Legend.

1. a son of Aeolus who challenged the gods to a musical contest and was killed by them for his arrogance.

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Misenus

I saw the foundations of that admirable reservoir of Nero, which was to go from Mount Misenus to the Avernian lake, and to enclose all the hot waters of Baiæ.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

So when their screams descending fill the strand, Misenus from his outlook sounds the fray.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

For this purpose the Pope commissioned two bishops, Vitalis and Misenus, to go as his legates to the emperor.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

For those Lines may as well be applied to the Trumpet of Virgil, as of Misenus.

From The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) by Trapp, Joseph

Misenus, son of Oeolus, renowned The warrior trumpet in the field to sound; With breathing brass to kindle fierce alarms, And rouse to dare their fate in honourable arms.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius