Misenus
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
Mīsēnus, ī, m.: son of Aeolus; a skillful trumpeter, who followed Hector in the Trojan war, and afterwards Aeneas, and was drowned on the coast of Campania, 3.239.
Mīsēnus, (13) ī, m. , ¶ 1 Misène [trompette de la suite dʼÉnée] : Virg. En. 6, 162 ¶ 2 le cap Misène : Virg. En. 6, 234 ; v. Misenum et Misena.
Mise'nus
(Μισηνός).
1. A companion of Odysseus. (Strab. i. p.26, v. p. 245.)
Mise'nus
2. A steersman of Aeneas (Vict. De Orig. Gent. Rom. 9), and, according to Virgil, at first a companion of Hector, and afterwards trumpeter of Aeneas; he died at Cumae, where Cape Misenum derived its name from him. (Verg. A. 6.162, &100.235.) His being called Aeolides arose from the legendary connection between the Aeolian and Campanian Cumae. [L.S]