Misenus

American  

[mahy-see-nuhs] / maɪˈsi nəs /

noun

Roman Legend.

1. a son of Aeolus who challenged the gods to a musical contest and was killed by them for his arrogance.

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Example Sentences

"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

I saw the foundations of that admirable reservoir of Nero, which was to go from Mount Misenus to the Avernian lake, and to enclose all the hot waters of Baiæ.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

There is no mention of Misenus in Homer.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

The land is low and marshy from Puzzuoli to a little beyond the lake Avernus; but from Monte Nuovo it begins to rise and form high cliffs nearly all way to Cape Misenus.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E

Misenus, son of Oeolus, renowned The warrior trumpet in the field to sound; With breathing brass to kindle fierce alarms, And rouse to dare their fate in honourable arms.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius