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aeneid's Usage Examples:

Joseph Warton's idea that the story is introduced by Virgil as a protest against the Roman custom of deification is not supported by the general tone of the Aeneid itself.

According to Virgil (Aeneid, vii.-xii.), Aeneas, on landing at the mouth of the Tiber, was welcomed by Latinus, the peaceful ruler whose seat of government was Laurentum, and ultimately married his daughter Lavinia.

ACHATES, the companion of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid.

He was the author of an ars grammatica and commentaries on Plautus, Virgil's Aeneid and probably Horace.

The most famous of the Bishops was Gavin Douglas (1474-1522), translator of the Aeneid.

He was one of the Greeks who entered Troy concealed in the wooden horse (Virgil, Aeneid, ii.

The earlier part of it treated of the mythical adventures of Aeneas in Sicily, Carthage and Italy, and borrowed from the interview of Zeus and Thetis in the first book of the Iliad the idea of the interview of Jupiter and Venus; which Virgil has made one of the cardinal passages in the Aeneid.

In the first, or general, prologue, Douglas claims a higher position for Virgil than for his master Chaucer, and attacks Caxton for his inadequate rendering of a French translation of the Aeneid.

Douglas's longest, last, and in some respects most important work is his translation of the Aeneid, the first version of a great classic poet in any English dialect.

The story of the Aeneid ends with the death of Turnus.

aeneid's Meaning':

an epic in Latin by Virgil; tells the adventures of Aeneas after the Trojan War; provides an illustrious historical background for the Roman Empire