Aeneid part 2 quotes

Question 1

Lavinia and prophecy

Answer 1

“cloud of bees”
“her long hair caught fire”
“Do not seek to join your daughter in marriage to a Latin”

Question 2

Juno in Book 7

Answer 2

“pierced by bitter resentment

“came down from the sky and struck the stubborn doors”

Question 3

Allecto in Book 7

Answer 3

“breathed its viper’s breath in to her [Amata] and made her mad”

“threw a burning torch at the warrior and it lodged deep in his heart, smoking with a black light”

Question 4

Amata in Book 7

Answer 4

“unhappy amata, driven out of her mind by her monstrous affliction”

“pretending that she was possessed by Bacchus”

Question 5

Turnus being sexist

Answer 5

“leave peace and war to men”

Question 6

Tiber dream

Answer 6

“this is the home that is decreed for you”

Question 7

Aeneas being a Roman hero in Book 7

Answer 7

“heart sick at the sadness of war”

Question 8

Evander greeting Aeneas

Answer 8

“with great joy I recognise who you are”
“My dear son, my only source of joy”
“royal seat of Evander on the Palatine”

Question 9

Vulcan

Answer 9

“bound to her [Venus] by eternal love”

“armour has to be made for a brave hero”

Question 10

Meeting Mezentius

Answer 10

“barbaric crimes committed by this tyrant”

Question 11

Shield of Aeneas

Answer 11

“all manner of monstrous gods”
“alongside the senate and the people of Rome”
“his father’s star shone above his head”
“Aeneas lifted on to his shoulder the fame and the fate of his descendants”

Question 12

Turnus being Homeric in Book 9

Answer 12

“like a wolf… pen of sheep”
“I too have a destiny… to cut down with the sword this vicious people that has robbed me of my bride”
“you are Phrygian women, not Phrygian men!”
“Juno lending him strength and spirit”

Question 13

Nisus

Answer 13

“their heads were lolling. He cut them off.”
“his only offence is to have loved the wrong friend too much!”
“hurled himself on to the dead body of his friend”

Question 14

Euryalus

Answer 14

“pierced to the heart with a great love of glory”
“head drooped on his shoulders like a scarlet flower”
“helmet of Messapus”

Question 15

Euryalus’ mother

Answer 15

“wailing as women do and tearing her hair”

“I could not bear to see my mother weep”

Question 16

Ascanius being a leader in Book 9

Answer 16

“my whole life hangs upon the return of my father”
“my father will give you twelve chosen matrons”
“sound of the death dealing bow of Ascanius mingled with the sound of the thunder”

Question 17

Apollo giving Ascanius advice in Book 9

Answer 17

“Let that be enough, son of Aeneas”

“Troy is not large enough for you”

Question 18

Jupiter and fate in Book 10

Answer 18

“a treaty has been decided upon. Accept it, and be content”

“Jupiter is the same king to all men. The fates will find their way”

Question 19

Aeneas’ aristeia

Answer 19

“flames poured from the top of his crest”
“harvested with the sword” “burning with rage”
“a brother’s place is with his brother”

Question 20

Pallas’ death

Answer 20

“my father will bear the one fate as easily as the other”

“as he died his bleeding mouth bit the soil of his enemies”

Question 21

Turnus killing Pallas

Answer 21

“I am sending him back the Pallas he deserves”

“He will bitterly regret this spoil and the day he took it”

Question 22

Turnus as a good leader in Book 10

Answer 22

“I see them wandering about without a leader”

Question 23

Juno ‘helping’ Turnus in Book 10

Answer 23

“an effigy in the form of Aeneas”

“tore the ship from her moorings”

Question 24

Lausus

Answer 24

“moaned bitterly for the father whom he loved”

“it pierced, too, the tunic his mother had woven for him”

Question 25

Mezentius’ change of heart

Answer 25

“I would to heaven I had paid with this guilty life of mine”

“let my body be buried in the earth”

Question 26

Pallas’ funeral

Answer 26

“live to see us in our kingdom”

“The captives, whose hands he had bound behind their backs”

Question 27

Aeneas addressing those asking to bury their dead

Answer 27

“he should have faced these weapons of mine in battle”

“it was your king who abandoned our sworn friendship”

Question 28

Evander hearing about Pallas’ death

Answer 28

“a father should not survive his son”

“debt I was fated to pay”

Question 29

The Rutulians

Answer 29

“so that Turnus can get himself a royal bride, our lives are cheap”

“let us propose a treaty on just terms, inviting them to become partners in our kingdom”

Question 30

Turnus defending the continuation of war

Answer 30

“Thybris rising, swollen with Trojan blood”

“the house of Evander destroyed root and branch”

Question 31

Diana as a patron goddess

Answer 31

“dear as she is to me above all others”

“draw an avenging arrow from my quiver”

Question 32

Camilla

Answer 32

“spilt the hot brains down his face”
“burning with all a woman’s passion for spoil and plunder”
“drinking deep of her virgin blood”
“fled in anger down to the shades”

Question 33

Amata’s death

Answer 33

“our whole house is falling and you are its one support”

“died a hideous death in the noose of a rope”

Question 34

Juno asking Jupiter for a compromise

Answer 34

“Troy has fallen, let it die”

“Let there be Latium”

Question 35

Juno manipulating Juturna

Answer 35

“help your brother”

“stir up war and dash from their hands this treaty”

Question 36

Turnus addressing Juturna

Answer 36

“I recognised you some time ago”
“let me be mad”
“Is it so bad a thing to die?”

Question 37

The duel

Answer 37

“what they were competing for was the lifeblood of Turnus”

Question 38

Turnus’ death

Answer 38

“Lavinia is yours, do not carry your hatred any further”
“fatal baldric of the boy Pallas”
“it is Pallas who makes sacrifice of you”

Question 39

Juturna

Answer 39

“ran forward to give Turnus his sword”
“is this the reward for my lost virginity?”
“so this is immortality!”

Question 40

Aeneas and the treaty

Answer 40

“nor do I seek royal power for myself”
“calling the gods to witness the second time he had been forced in to battle”
“we have a treaty and my right hand will make it good”

Question 41

Venus in Book 12

Answer 41

“dismayed at her sons undeserved suffering, picked some dittany”

“wrenched out Aeneas’ spear from deep in the root”

Question 42

Jupiter scolding Juno

Answer 42

“why have you put strength in to the arm of the defeated?”