Aenēis, idis or idos, f. Aeneas, the Aeneid, Virgil's celebrated epic, the hero of which is Aeneas, the progenitor of the Romans: Aeneidos auctor, Ov. Tr. 2, 533: nec tu divinam Aeneida tenta, Stat. Th. 12 fin.: morbo oppressus (Vergilius) petivit a suis, ut Aeneida quam nondum satis elimavisset, adolerent, Gell. 17, 10.