Meaning of minae | Babel Free

Definitions

1. projecting points; pinnacles; battlements; parapets
   declension-1, feminine, plural
2. genitive/dative singular
   dative, form-of, genitive, singular
3. threats; menaces; threatening perils
   declension-1, feminine, figuratively, plural
4. nominative/vocative plural
   form-of, nominative, plural, vocative

Equivalents

Examples

“… Quid bella Tyrō surgentia dīcam, / germānīque minās?”

“[And] why must I mention the war-dangers arising from Tyre, and our brother’s threats?” (Anna and Dido had taken Tyrian treasures when they fled from their murderous brother Pygmalion: Aeneid 1.340-364.)

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