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1  Under the mountain height was a great earthen mound, tomb of Dercennus, a Laurentine king of old, shrouded in shadowy ilex.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
2  Here lord Aeneas set up a goal of leafy ilex, a mark for the sailors to know whence to return, where to wheel their long course round.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FIFTH
3  The forest spread wide in tangled thickets and dark ilex; thick growth of briars choked it all about, and the muffled pathway glimmered in a broken track.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK NINTH
4  They move into the ancient forest, the deep coverts of game; pitch-pines fall flat, ilex rings to the stroke of axes, and ashen beams and oak are split in clefts with wedges; they roll in huge mountain-ashes from the hills.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SIXTH
5  As in chill mid-winter the woodland is wont to blossom with the strange leafage of the mistletoe, sown on an alien tree and wreathing the smooth stems with burgeoning saffron; so on the shadowy ilex seemed that leafy gold, so the foil tinkled in the light breeze.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SIXTH
6  But the Queen, the pyre being built up of piled faggots and sawn ilex in the inmost of her dwelling, hangs the room with chaplets and garlands it with funeral boughs: on the pillow she lays the dress he wore, the sword he left, and an image of him, knowing what was to come.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FOURTH
7  But lord Aeneas, hearing Turnus' name, abandons the walls, abandons the fortress height, and in exultant joy flings aside all hindrance, breaks off all work, and clashes his armour terribly, vast as Athos, or as Eryx, or as the lord of Apennine when he roars with his tossing ilex woods and rears his snowy crest rejoicing into air.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK TWELFTH