Nautes

[ naw-teez, noh- ]

noun

1. (in the Aeneid ) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.

Example Sentences

But the vessels are saved, with the loss of four, by the miraculous intervention of Jupiter. �neas thereupon is advised by Nautes, a Trojan prince, to build a town here in Sicily, and to leave behind all those who have grown weak or out of sympathy with his great enterprise.

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Hear and obey the counsel sage Bestowed by Nautes' reverend age: Picked youths, the bravest of the brave, Be these your comrades o'er the wave, For haughty are the tribes and rude That Latium has to be subdued.

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And then they all went in to their archumpelygo, where Crewdson and his ladies were waiting for them, rari nautes.

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Then old Nautes, whom Tritonian Pallas taught like none other, and made famous in eminence of art—she granted him to reply what the gods' heavy anger menaced or what the order of fate claimed—he then in accents of comfort thus speaks to Aeneas: 'Goddess-born, follow we fate's ebb and flow, whatsoever it shall be; fortune must be borne to be overcome.

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Obey thou the fair counsel aged Nautes now gives.

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