Aeneid Quotes - Chapter 4 Flashcards
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‘Again and again there rushed into her mind thoughts of the great valour of the man and the high glories of his line.’
6
‘Love gave her body no peace or rest.’
16
‘If my mind had not been set and immovably fixed against joining any man in the bonds of marriage ever since death cheated me of my first love, if I were not so utterly opposed to the marriage torch and bed, this is the one temptation to which I possibly have succumbed.’
23
‘This is the only man who has stirred my feelings and moved my mind to waver: I sense the return of the old fires.’
27
‘The man who first joined himself to me has carried away all my love. He shall keep it for himself, safe in his grave.’ - Foreshadowing Aeneas meeting them in the underworld?
31
‘But Anna replied: ‘O sister, dearer to me than the light of life, are you going to waste away, living alone and in mourning all the days of your youth, without knowing the delight of children and the rewards of love? Do you believe this is what the dead care about when they are buried in the grave?’
38
‘Will you now resist even a love your heart accepts?’
47
‘O my sister, what a city and what a kingdom you will see rising here if you are married to such a man! To what a pinnacle of glory will Carthage be raised if Trojans are marching at our side!’
55
‘With these words Anna lit a fire of wild love in her sister’s breast. Where there had been doubt she gave hope and Dido’s conscience was overcome.’ - Lit a fire?
66
‘The flame was eating the soft marrow of her bones and the wound lived quietly under her breast.’
68
‘Dido was on fire with love’
77
‘Sometimes, as the day was ending, she would call for more feasting and ask in her infatuation to hear once more about the sufferings of Troy and once more she would hand on his lips as he told the story.’
82
‘Alone and wretched in her empty house she would cling to the couch Aeneas had left.’
85
‘Trying to beguile the love she could not declare. The towers she was building ceased to rise.’
100
‘You have achieved what you have set your whole heart on: Dido is passionately in love and the madness is working through her bones.’
106
‘Venus realized this was all pretence in order to divert the empire of Italy to the shores of Libya,’
137
‘Resplendent in its purple and gold’ ‘Great entourage thronging round her’ ‘Her quiver was gold’ ‘Gold was the clasp that gathered up her hair’ ‘Her purple tunic was fastened with a golden brooch’
169
‘This day was the beginning of her death, the first cause of all her sufferings.’
193
‘How they were even now indulging themselves and keeping each other warm the whole winter through, forgetting about their kingdoms and becoming the slaves of lust.’
228
‘It was not for this that she twice rescued him from the swords of the Greeks.’
230
‘She told us he would be the man to rule an Italy pregnant with empire and clamouring for war, passing the high blood of Teucer down to his descendants and subduing the whole world under his laws.’
236
‘What does he hope to achieve dallying among a hostile people and sparring not a thought for the Lavinian fields and his descendants yet to be born in Ausonia?’
265
‘Mercury wasted no time: ‘So now you are laying foundations for the high towers of Carthage and building a splendid city to please your wife? Have you entirely forgotten your own kingdom and your own destiny?’’
