Aenēas, ae, m. (also in the nom. Aenea, Varr. ap. Charis. p. 50 P.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 61; gen. sometimes Aeneā, Apul. Orth. § 23 Osann.; acc. Aenean often, after the Gr. Αἰνείαν, Ov.F. 5, 568; id.H. 7, 36; voc. Aenēā, Poët. ap Varr. L. L. 6, § 60 Müll.; Ov.H. 7, 9),
= Αἰνείας, Aeneas , son of Venus and Anchises , the hero of Virgil's epic poem , and ancestor of the Romans , worshipped after his death as Juppiter Indiges; cf. Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 1, 207 sq.