Aeneid Quotes - Chapter 1 Flashcards
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‘I sing of arms and of the man’
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‘Great too were his sufferings in war before he could found his city and carry his gods to into Latium’
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‘Can there be so much anger in the hearts of the heavenly gods?’
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‘So heavy was the cost of founding the Roman race.’
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‘Wherever the Trojans looked, death stared them in the face.’
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‘Aeneas and his men were exhausted and making what speed they could for the nearest land, they set course for the coast of Libya.’
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‘He will wage a great war in Italy and crush its fierce tribes.’
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‘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.’
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‘I have given them an empire that will know no end.’
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‘He will be called Julius, a name passed down to him from the great Iulus.’
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‘The woman led the whole undertaking.’
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‘When they arrived at the place where you will now see the great walls and rising citadel of the new city of Carthage,’
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‘My descent is from highest Jupiter.’
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‘I am a helpless stranger, driven out of Europe and out of Asia, tramping the desert wastes of Libya.’
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‘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.’
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‘Their walls are already rising!’
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‘The Trojan War was already famous throughout the world. The two sons of Atreus were there and Priam and Achilles who hated both sides.’
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‘Queen Dido in all her beauty arrived at the temple with a great crowd of warriors around her.’
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‘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.’
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‘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.’
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‘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.’
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‘All his thoughts were on his dear son Ascanius.’
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‘Venus meanwhile was turning over new schemes in her mind and devising new plans.’
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‘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.’
