Aeneid Quotes - Chapter 1

Question 1

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‘I sing of arms and of the man’

Question 2

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Answer 2

‘Great too were his sufferings in war before he could found his city and carry his gods to into Latium’

Question 3

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Answer 3

‘Can there be so much anger in the hearts of the heavenly gods?’

Question 4

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Answer 4

‘So heavy was the cost of founding the Roman race.’

Question 5

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Answer 5

‘Wherever the Trojans looked, death stared them in the face.’

Question 6

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Answer 6

‘Aeneas and his men were exhausted and making what speed they could for the nearest land, they set course for the coast of Libya.’

Question 7

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Answer 7

‘He will wage a great war in Italy and crush its fierce tribes.’

Question 8

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Answer 8

‘Here the rule of the race of Hector will last for three hundred long years until Ilia the royal priestess, heavy with the seed of Mars, shall give birth to twin sons.’

Question 9

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Answer 9

‘I have given them an empire that will know no end.’

Question 10

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Answer 10

‘He will be called Julius, a name passed down to him from the great Iulus.’

Question 11

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Answer 11

‘The woman led the whole undertaking.’

Question 12

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Answer 12

‘When they arrived at the place where you will now see the great walls and rising citadel of the new city of Carthage,’

Question 13

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Answer 13

‘My descent is from highest Jupiter.’

Question 14

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Answer 14

‘I am a helpless stranger, driven out of Europe and out of Asia, tramping the desert wastes of Libya.’

Question 15

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Answer 15

‘Aeneas was amazed by the size of it (Carthage) where recently there had been nothing but shepherds’’ huts, amazed too by the gates, the paved streets and all the stir.’

Question 16

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Answer 16

‘Their walls are already rising!’

Question 17

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Answer 17

‘The Trojan War was already famous throughout the world. The two sons of Atreus were there and Priam and Achilles who hated both sides.’

Question 18

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Answer 18

‘Queen Dido in all her beauty arrived at the temple with a great crowd of warriors around her.’

Question 19

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Answer 19

‘There is a place which Greeks know by the name Hesperia (Italy). It is an ancient land, strong in war and rich in the fertility of its soil.’

Question 20

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Answer 20

‘Draw up your ships on the beach. Trojan and Tyrian shall be as one in my eyes. I wish only that your King Aeneas had been driven by the same south wind and were here with you now.’

Question 21

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Answer 21

‘It is not within our power to repay you as you deserve, nor could whatever survives of the Trojan race, scattered as it is over the face of the wide earth.’

Question 22

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Answer 22

‘All his thoughts were on his dear son Ascanius.’

Question 23

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Answer 23

‘Venus meanwhile was turning over new schemes in her mind and devising new plans.’

Question 24

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Answer 24

‘But most of all the unfortunate Dido, doomed to be the victim of a plague that was yet to come, could not have her fill of gazing and as she gazed, moved by the boy as much as by the gifts, the fire within her grew.’

Question 25

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Answer 25

'’But no,’ she said, ‘come tell your hosts from the beginning about the treachery of the Greeks, the sufferings of your people and your own wanderings, for this is now the seventh summer that has carried you as a wanderer over every land and sea.’