Aeneid Quotes Flashcards
Opening line
“I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile” Book 1
Survivors guilt over those who died in Troy
“Many times more fortunate than I” Book 1
Aeneas advising his soldiers to take heart and do not feel defeated
“Your task is to endure and save yourself for better days” Book 1
The gods Book 1
“You too are cruel”
“I do not believe you are hated by the gods”
Relationships Book 1
“All his thoughts were on his son Ascanius”
Glory Book 2
“This is the last light we shall see and it is calling the defeated”
“Today we die. But not all of us shall die unavenged”
Women Book 2
“At a distance”
“I am the daughter of Dardanus and my husband was the son of Venus”
Turning into a Roman hero Book 2
“I yielded. I lifted up my father and set out for the mountains”
Rumour Book 4
“Rumour was quick of foot and swift of wing”
Roman Rhetoric Book 6
“Lean to be just and not slight the gods”
“look at this family of yours, your own Romans”
Empire stretches to “a land beyond the stars”
Virgil Message book 6
“Your task, Roman, and do not forget it… pardon the defeated and war down the proud”
War Book 7
“Discord is made perfect in the horror of war.”
Responsibility Book 8
“lifted onto his shoulder the fate and fame of his descendants”
War Book 10
“There is no sin in killing” - Mez
“Foot planted against foot, man face to face with man”
“Victors and vanquished killed and were killed”
Like Troy Book 9
“I do not need a thousand ships”
