Definitions for Misenus

Misenus Mi·se·nus

Spelling: [mahy-see-nuh s]
IPA: /maɪˈsi nəs/

Misenus is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in Misenus (eimnssu).

Definitions for Misenus

noun

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

Examples for Misenus

For this purpose the Pope commissioned two bishops, Vitalis and Misenus, to go as his legates to the emperor.

Misenus was the most skilled among all the Trojans in the art of blowing the trumpet.

I longed to ascend the promontory of Misenus, and follow the same dusky route down which the Sibyl conducted neas.

This urn was afterwards deposited in a lofty tomb which Æneas erected on a promontory that henceforth bore the name of Misenus.

After the death and burial of Misenus, Æneas finds and gathers the golden bough (199-261).

Misenus lay there, than whom no man was more skilful to call men to battle with the voice of the trumpet.

Virgil tells us, that Misenus was buried, in the clothes he commonly wore.

Therefore, the Harpies coming yet again, Misenus with his trumpet gave the sound for battle.

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