Misenus
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Misenus was the most skilled among all the Trojans in the art of blowing the trumpet.
From The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) by Various
And therewithal the Teucrians on the beach wept Misenus, and bore the last rites to the thankless ashes.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
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 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
"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
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