aeneid
IPA: ʌnˈiɪd
Root Word: Aeneid
noun
- A classic epic poem, written in Latin by Virgil in the 1st century BCE (between 29 and 19 BCE), that tells the legendary story of Aeneas fleeing Troy and settling in Italy as ancestor of the Romans.
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Examples of "aeneid" in Sentences
- In a profile in this week’s New Yorker, Zuckerberg quotes from the Aeneid in Latin (but only because “these are the most famous quotes in the aeneid”):
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