Aeneid part 1 quotes

Question 1

calling on the muse

Answer 1

“I sing of arms and of the man”
“Fierce and unforgetting anger of Juno”
“Famous for his piety”

Question 2

The storm in Book 1

Answer 2

“Aeneas and his limbs grew weak”
Neptune “calming the swell” “as when disorder arises among the people of a great city”
“He showed them a face of hope and kept his misery deep in his heart”

Question 3

Scrolls of fate

Answer 3

“on them I impose no limits of time or place”
“race that wears the toga”
“a Trojan Caesar”
“laden with spoils of the east”

Question 4

Meeting Dido in Book 1

Answer 4

“she was like Diana… tallest of all the goddesses”
“urging on their work”
“through my own suffering, I am learning to help those who suffer”

Question 5

Aeneas introducing himself to Dido

Answer 5

“I am Aeneas, known for my devotion”

Question 6

Carthage

Answer 6

“electing magistrates and a senate”
“laying deep foundations for a theatre”
“Their walls are already rising!”

Question 7

Cupid

Answer 7

“breathe fire and poison in to her and she will not know”

Question 8

Laocoon

Answer 8

“two serpents seized his two young sons”

“feeding on their helpless limbs”

Question 9

Ghost of Hector

Answer 9

“look for a great city to establish for them”

“So shamefully disfigured the face that was once so serene?”

Question 10

Homeric Hero in Book 2

Answer 10

“frenzy and anger drove me on and suddenly it seemed the noble thing to do to die in arms”

“I ran towards her ranting and raving”

Question 11

Pyrrhus

Answer 11

“like a snake which has fed on poisonous herbs”

Question 12

The women in Troy

Answer 12

“like doves driven down in a black storm”
“frightened mothers”
“do not fail in your love for our son”

Question 13

Polites

Answer 13

“vomited his life’s blood before their eyes”

Question 14

Priam

Answer 14

“body trembling as it slithered through pools of his son’s blood”

“His might trunk lay upon the shore, the head hacked from the shoulders”

Question 15

Ascanius in Troy

Answer 15

“flame seemed to lick his soft hair… without harming him”

Question 16

Harpies

Answer 16

“filth oozing from their bellies”

“gnaw around the edges of your tables”

Question 17

Helenus

Answer 17

“this is the fate allotted to you by the king of the gods”

“a great sow with the litter of thirty piglets”

Question 18

Juno in Book 4

Answer 18

“All powerful Juno then took pity”

“sent Iris… to free her struggling spirit”

Question 19

Mercury in Book 4

Answer 19

“you owe him the land of Rome”

“No more delay! Women are unstable creatures, always changing”

Question 20

Anna

Answer 20

“what a kingdom you will see rising here if you are married to such a man!”
“sobbing as she dried the dark blood with her own dress”
“It is not only yourself you have destroyed”

Question 21

Aeneas in Book 4

Answer 21

“most splendid of them all… like Apollo”
“slaves of lust”
“it is not by my own will that I Search for Italy”
“fight down the anguish in his heart”

Question 22

Dido as a victim

Answer 22

“like a wounded doe”
“the towers she was building ceased to rise”
“called it a marriage, using the word to cover her guilt”

Question 23

Dido being angry

Answer 23

“she raged and raved round the whole city like a Bacchant”
“Dido dying a cruel death?”
“I am hated because of you”

Question 24

Dido’s death

Answer 24

“There is nothing left for you, Dido”
“I have not kept faith with the ashes of Sychaeus”
“fell upon the sword”
“dying not by the decree of fate or by her own deserts”

Question 25

Dido and vengeance

Answer 25

“Let there be war between the nations”

“serves his flesh at his father’s table?”

Question 26

women in Book 5

Answer 26

“gave him a prize…Cretan slave woman”

Question 27

Iris in Book 5

Answer 27

“the minds of the women of troy were roused”

“hurling blazing branches”

Question 28

Sibyl in Book 6

Answer 28

“foaming mouth”
“deadly wars, I see the Thybris foaming with torrents of blood”
“A second Achilles is already born in Latium”

Question 29

Aeneas in Book 6

Answer 29

“downcast eyes and sorrowing face”
“two doves”
“saw the hero and his armour gleaming”

Question 30

Palinurus

Answer 30

“how can you, who are unburied, hope to set eyes on the river Styx?”

“place will bear the name of Palinurus”

Question 31

Dido in Book 6

Answer 31

“answered her grief with grief and her love with love”

“pitying her as she went”

Question 32

Bad people in Book 6

Answer 32

“men caught and killed in adultery”

“took up arms against their own people”

Question 33

Good people in Book 6

Answer 33

“those who men remember for what they have done for men”

Question 34

Anchises in Book 6

Answer 34

“my love has not deceived me”

“I so feared the kingdom of Libya would do you harm”

Question 35

references to Augustus in Book 6

Answer 35

“Augustus Caesar, son of a god”
“Caspian Sea”
“seven mouths of the Nile”
“do not harden your hearts to such wars”

Question 36

depiction of the Roman empire in Book 6

Answer 36

“others will draw living likenesses out of marble”
“your task Roman… will be to govern”
“impose a settled pattern upon peace, to pardon the defeated”