Aenēis

I. the Æneid, Virgil's celebrated epic, the hero of which is Æneas, the progenitor of the Romans: Aeneïdos auctor, Ov. Tr. 2, 533: nec tu divinam Aeneïda tenta, Stat. Th. 12 fin.: morbo oppressus (Vergilius) petivit a suis, ut Aeneïda quam nondum satis elimavisset, adolerent, Gell. 17, 10.