Æneas

See also: Aeneas and aeneas

English

Proper noun

Æneas

  1. Obsolete form of Aeneas.
    • 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 234:
      Acheron and Phlegeton, which a subterraneous fire causes to boil, are the billows of that hell which was visited by Æneas.
    • 1871, Wilhelm Ihne, chapter I, in The History of Rome, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 3:
      WHEN, according to the counsel of the gods, Troy was conquered by the Greeks, the noble Æneas, with a number of Trojans, fled from the burning city.
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