Misenus
Americannoun
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In this bay and near cape Misenus a Roman fleet was usually stationed and Pliny's uncle, I believe, commanded one there at the time of the first eruption of Vesuvius which cost him his life.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E
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
There is no mention of Misenus in Homer.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
"O in this grove could I behold the tree With golden bough; since true, alas, too true, Misenus, hath the priestess sung of thee!"
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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
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