OE Byrhtferð (Ashm.) (1995) iii. iii. 162 Swa [sc. according to the ‘mixed’, i.e. epic mode] þas þing synd gesette þe man nemð Ylias and Odissia Omeri and Eneidos Virgilii.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 407 Poeta haþ þat name of feynynge, and suche on was Virgil, specialliche in his Eneyd [L. in Æneid], and Ovidius.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 539 He hadde hent kyng Priam by the berd And slayn hym as seith vs Eneydos.
c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 342 (MED) It is he [sc. Aeneas] to whom so greet a loos Virgile ȝaf in his Eneydos.
1490 W. Caxton in tr. sig. Bj This present booke compyled by virgyle..Intytuled Eneydos.
c1550 (1979) v. 27 Virgil..in the sext beuk of his eneados.
1589 A. Fleming in tr. Virgil Main Argt. sig. A4 His Bucoliks, or Pastoralls..his Georgiks or ruralls..his Æneids or Martialls.
1589 G. Puttenham ii. xii. 86 As he that translated certaine bookes of Virgils Eneydos in such measures & not vncommendably.
1655 T. Fuller ii. 96 The beastly Monk..had e'ne learned as far as Virgil's Æneids, whence he fetched the Platform of this pretty Conceit.
1678 R. Cudworth i. v. 790 Virgil in his Sixth Ænead.
?1705 T. D'Urfey 82 Lucretius's Æneis must also be owned infinitely Preferable to Virgil's.
1711 J. Addison No. 60. ¶2 I have seen half the Æneid turned into Latin Rhymes.
1749 H. Fielding V. xiii. ii. 12 I have often thought, that by the particular Description of Cerberus the Porter of Hell, in the 6th Æneid, Virgil might possibly intend to satyrize the Porters of the great Men in his Time.
1819 Ld. Byron xli. 23 And for their Æneids, Iliads, and Odysseys, Were forced to make an odd sort of apology.
1867 July 129 Mr. Conington..has produced an English Æneid, of which it may be fairly said, that..its tone is not Virgilian.
1918 R. A. Knox i. 1 An Aeneid involves not merely coming home, but coming home to a place you have never been in before.
1950 S. Spender in W. Whitman Introd. 7 Leaves of Grass is a vague, formless, but nevertheless impressive and rhapsodic Aeneid of the American Civil War.
1999 32 The most important Greek epic of the 3rd century BC, the only epic before Virgil's Aeneid that could be compared with Homer in subject and extent.