Misenus
Americannoun
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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
Meantime the Trojan troops, with weeping eyes, To dead Misenus pay his obsequies.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
Messenus: Misenus, son of Aeolus, the companion and trumpeter of Aeneas, was drowned near the Campanian headland called Misenum after his name.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
Aeneas must first possess a golden branch to present to Proserpina, and celebrate the funeral rites of his friend, Misenus, who yet lay unburied.
From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner
Virgil tells us, that Misenus was buried, in the clothes he commonly wore.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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