Aeneid Quotes Flashcards
“Thrash your winds to fury, sink their warships, overwhelm them or break them apart!”
Juno to Aeolus the god of the winds
“Hardly strangers to pain before now, we all have weathered worse. Some god will grant us an end to this as well.”
Aeneas to is depressed crew
“Cast fear to the winds, Trojans, free your minds. Our kingdom is new…Trojans, Tyrian’s: they will be all the same to me!”
Dido
“Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, especially bearing gifts.”
Laocoon about the Trojan horse
“So, this woman, safe and sound she’ll look once more on Sparta?…What joy, to get my heart with the fires of vengeance, bring some peace to the ashes of my people!”
Aeneas about Helen
“Do you really believe that’s what the dust desires, the ghosts in their ashen tombs?”
Anna to the dead Dido
“The ghost of Cassandra came to me in dreams, the prophetess gave me flaming brands and said: ‘Look for Troy right here, your own home here!’ Act now. No delay in the face of signs like these. You see? Four alters to Neptune. The god himself is giving us torches, building our courage, too.”
Iris to the Trojan women
“Son of Iasius, Palinurus, the sea, all on its own, is sweeping the squadrons on, the wind is blowing steady.. .Come, put your head down, steal rest for your own eyes worn out from labor. For a moment I’ll take on your work myself.”
The God of Sleep to Palinurus
“Oh, dear god, was it I who caused your death? I swear by the stars, by the powers on high, whatever faith one swears by here in the depths of earth, I left your shores…against my will!”
Aeneas to dead Dido
“Don’t hunger to know their doom, what form of torture or twist of Fortune drags them down.”
Sybil to Aeneas as they travel through the underworld
“Don’t press to know people’s awesome grief. Only a glimpse of him the Fates will grant the world, not let him linger no longer. Too mighty, the Roman race, it seemed to you above, if this grand gift should last.”
Anchises to Aeneas in Elysium
Says nothing to Aeneas
Ghost Dido
“Trojan, I embrace your gifts. While (I rule), you’ll never lack rich plowland, bounty great as Troy’s. Just let Aeneas…Come in person ad never shy from the eyes of friends.”
Latinus to the Trojan troops once they arrive in Latium (Italy)
“I endured it all, left nothing undared, I swooped to any tactic, still he defeats me - Aeneas! But if my forces are not enough, I am hardly the one to relent… it’s not for me to deny him his Latin throne? So be it…But I can drag things out, delay the whole affair.”
Juno
Laughing “Stop concocting this panic for me, please…you and your warring kings, your false alarms, your mockery of a prophet! See to your own chores, go tend the shrines and statue of the gods. Men will make war and peace. War’s their work.”
Turnus
