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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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Meantime the Trojan troops, with weeping eyes, To dead Misenus pay his obsequies.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

But while they were wondering they came to the beach, and there, before them, they saw lying the body of Misenus, who had come to a lamentable end.

From The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) by Various

There is no mention of Misenus in Homer.

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

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 Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Nor less the dead Misenus they deplore, And honours to the thankless dust assign.

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

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