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Irish First Names
Aeneas [Aeneas] (m) Greek, worthy of praise'.
The name of a character in Homer's Iliad who became the hero of Virgil's Aeneid. It has been used in Ireland to anglicise the native name Aengus, 'one vigour'.
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