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at vero Aeneas aspectu obmutuit amens

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Elision

Obmutuit -> hammer blow

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arrectaequae horrore comae et cox faucibus haesit.

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horrore -> rolled r’s represent trembling

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ardet abire fuga dulcesque relinquere terras

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ardet abire -> assonance creates grandeur

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attonitus tanto monitu imperioque deorum

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attonitus tanto -> dentals show harsh nature of the task

elision for emphasis

imperioque deorum -> assonance shows awe of gods

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heu quid agat?

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Rhetorical question and direct address

Creates sympathy

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quo nunc reginam ambire furentem audeat adfatu?

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Tricolon - crescendo - catches the ear

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quae prima exordia sumat?

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pleonasm -> emphasises how overwhelmed he is

Rhythm disrupted by elisions

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atquae animum nunc huc celerem, nunc divisit illuc

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Repetition of harsh c sounds represents conflicting thoughts and the harsh nature of the situation

Elision adds to the franticness and adds pace- blurring the words

Repetition shows confusion and urgency

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in partesque rapit varias perque omnia versat

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Varias -> vivid description

Scattered word order represents scattered thoughts

Elision emphasises omnia

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haec alternati potior sententia visa est:

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Alternati -> word choice shows conflict

Aeneas is not in the nominative -> reflecting how he is not in control and alluding to the orders of the gods

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at regina dolos (quis fallere possit amantem?) praesensit

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at -> tone change to negative

Direct address, philosophical part shows aeneas’ foolishness

praesensit -> enjambement emphasises Dido’s intuition and sensitivity

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motusque excepit prima futuros omnia tuta timens.

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Elision emphasises the speed of her discovery

Futuros delayed

Tuta timens -> dentals represents worry

Caesura -> uncertainty

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eadem impia Fama furenti detulit armari classem cursumque parari.

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Fama -> rumour is personified as a goddess- emphasises paranoia

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saevit inops animi, totamque incensa o’er urbem bacchatur,

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Caesura

Bacchatur imagery -> Dionysus, animal sacrifice, blood thirsty, frenzied trance

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ubi audito stimulant trieterica Baccho orgia

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orgia -> indicates anger, excessive passion

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dixerat. ille Iovis monitis immota tenebat lumina;

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caesura -> pregnant pause. Finality

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et obnixus curam sub corde premebat.

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promotion of curam -> shows power of his emotions

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tandem pauca refert:

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Defensive, careful

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“ ego te, quae plurima fando enumerare vales,

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Promotion of ‘ego’ indicates his defensiveness

‘Ego te’ he still thinks of them together
(Promotion of te shows he is thinking of her)

Plurima -> superlative, complementary
(Also promoted)

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numquam, regina, negabo promeritam

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Regina promotion -> respect

Enjambement shows gratuity

Deferring promeritam?

Alliteration of ‘m’ -> trembling

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nec me meminisse pigebat Elissae

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Alliteration of m -> trembling emotions

Assonance -> urgent insistence

pigebit future tense -> he sees a future without her

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dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos regit artus.

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Repetion of dum -> forceful dentals, insistence

Repetion of m sounds -> trembling emotions

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pro re pauca loquar.

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Legalese -> cold, impersonal

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neque hanc abscondere furto speravi (ne finge) fugam,

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Repetion of negatives -> emphasises negative situation and Aeneas’ defensiveness

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nec coniugis umquam pratendi taedas, aut haec in foedera veni
nec, aut -> defensive tone umquam -> high impact position
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me si fata meis paterentur ducere vitam auspiciis, et sponte mea componere curas
Repetition of personal pronouns -> selfish meis -> promotors, suggests he has no control and emphasises frustration repeated c sounds are guttural
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urbem Troianam primum ducelsque meorum reliquias colerem
primum -> shows his priorities dulcesque -> promotion shows patriotism more personal pronouns
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Priami tecta alta manerent, et recidiva manu posuissem Pergama victis
Elisions emphasises Alta -> fond memories Recidiva -> promoted for pride ; emotive
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sed nunc Italiam Magnam Gryneus Apollo, Italiam Lyciae iussere capessere sortes:
magnam -> shows misplaced hope/optimism Italiam -> rhetorical repetition Sibilance -> pleading Assonance -> pleading
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hic amor, haec patria est. si te Carthaginis arces, Phoenissam
Elision is forceful Phoenissam delayed, emphasises with caesura
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Libycaequae aspectus detinet urbis, quae tandem Ausonia Teucrls consider terra invisible est
Elision emphasises that not much handed Elision emphasises that it is far away Teucros -> excluding her enjambement -> anger flaring up
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et nos fas extera quaerere regna
Fas -> emotive, morally right nefas earlier- he is rebuking her pointedly
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ipse deum manifesto in lumine vidi intrantem muros, vocemque his auribus Hausi
Ipse, his -> emphatic Ipse deum -> juxtaposition -> shows how close he was to the god Manifesto -> promotions indicates surity hausi -> metaphor suggests intoxicating and enthusiasm
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desine meque tuis incendere teque querelis
Assonance expresses exasperation
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i, sequere Italiam ventis, Pete Regna per undas.
imperatives -> aggressive tone Assonance -> harsh
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supplicia hausurum scopulis et nomine Dido saepe vocaturum.
Scopulis -> word choice , jagged Caesura -> disjointed , speech is not near
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sequar atris ignibus absens
Reference to fury- spirits that exact revenge in the afterlife
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omnibus umbra locis adero
omnibus has high impact position Caesura disjointed
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quam Troius heros, ut primum iuxta stetit agnovitque per Umbras obscurum
heros -> Virgil wants us to forgive Aeneas stetit -> dentals, trembling enjambement emphasises the vivid description of obscuram, putting it in a high impact position
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qualem primo qui surgere mense aut videt aut videsse putat per nubila lunam
Simile -> creates a familiarity for comparison. Also shows us Aeneas’ perception lunam -> high impact position -> separation fro surgere to highlight doubt
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demisit lacrimas dulcique adfatus amore est
Elisions, words blur demonstrates uncertainty promotion of dulcique shows his affection
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infelix Dido, versus mihi nuntius ergo venerat exstinctam,
Infelix -> word choice indicate Pity and echoes their first convo- Enxstinctan -> hyperbolic, metaphor for the flames of love and life
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funeris heu tibi causa fui?
Fricatives show forceful emotion Heu -> exclamation of woe
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per sidera iuro, per superos, et si qua fides tellure sub ima est,
per, per, si -> tricolon, more echoing Sibilence -> emphatic, desperation
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invitus, regina, tuo de litore cessi
Invitus in a high impact position -> the big idea regina -> formal, respect cessi-> half line, another echo
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sed iussa deum, quae nunc has ire per umbras,
me iussa deum -> juxtaposition, emphasises that Aeneas is an instrument of the gods Per Umbria’s is part of a tricolon, rhetorical to persuade, creating pathos iussa deum -> command word
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per loca senta situ cogunt noctemque profundam,
Rest of tricolon Senta situ-> vivid description evoke pathos cogunt -> command word-> emphasising that it wasn’t his choice
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imperiis egere suis. nec credere quivi hunc tantum tibi me discessu ferre Dolorem
enjambement emphasises command word -> it wasn’t his choice tibi me discessu -> juxtaposition is regretful dolorem delayed for high impact
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siste gradum, teque aspectu ne subtrahe nostro.
imperatives -> desperation Assonance -> desperation Elision shows urgency Sub -> down into the Underworld
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quem fugis?
Echo of me ne fugis
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extremum fato quod te adloquor hoc est. “
Promotion go extremum gives it high impact to emphasise desperation
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talibus Aeneas ardentem et torva tuentem lenibat dictis animum, lacrimasque ciebat
Dentals illustrate didos hostility -> implacable Assonance -> Aeneas’ desperation Torva -> vivid
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classem aptent taciti sociosque ad litora cogant, arma parent
3 orders in quick succession - urgency Semantic field of deceitfullness
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dissimulent; sese interea, quando optima Dido nesciat
Enjambement -> emphasis, dramatic power Semi-colon -> dramatic pause Optima emphasises scale of relationship
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et tantos rumpi non speret amores
Tantos, amores -> emphasise scale of relationship
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mollissima fandi tempora, quis rebus dexter modus.
Mollissima, fando -> emphasise scale of relationship Enjambement Caesura shows his awkwardness and unusualness of his unheroic actions Imperio - words used to show the commands of the gods are now used to show commands of Aeneas -> deification
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“dissimulare etiam sperasti, perfide, tantum posse nefas, tacitusque mea decedere terra”
Disjointed -> loosely structured word order shows crazed mental state Perfide -> hostile, accusatory, she feels betrayed Enjambement -> lack of control Mixture of dentals and sibilence
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nec te noster amor nec te data dextera quondam nec moritura tenet crudeli funere Dido
Tricolon, anaphora -> reinforces negative tone, escalates in intensity Rhetorical questions 3rs person - more poignant, pathetic pathos invoked
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cruedelis? quid, si non arva aliena domosque ignotas peteres
Vocative enjambement -> more emphasis Exclamatory -> angry incomprehension Ignotas -> powerful, high-impact position -> central to her argument
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per ego has lacrimas dextramque tuam te
Personal pronouns link them together Per -> escalating intensity and desperation Right hand connoting marriage
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quando aliud mihi is miserae nihil ipsa reliqui
She has given everything to him Aliud promoted above nihil Mihi promoted above miserae She feels empty -> juxtaposition Pathos
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per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos
Per -> escalating intensity Marital imagery -> Dido considers them to man and wife
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miserere domus labentis, et istam, oro
Main verb in whole sentence -> desperation Miserere-> imperative
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si quis adhuc precibus locus, exue mentem
Quis promoted above locus -> desperation Exue -> imperative
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his medium dictis sermonem abrumpit
ablative absolute emphasises abruptness His promoted before dictis, medium promoted before sermonem -> links them together Vivid use of present tense
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et auras aegra fugit seque ex oculis avertit et aufert
Aegra fugit -> juxtaposition -> strong words put together illustrate her strong emotions Elision Avertit, aufert -> imagery shows her going away
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liquens multa metu cunctantem et multa parantem dicere
Caesura -> dramatic pause, sad silence, sense of emptiness Elision -> emphasises multa Repetition of multa -> he has a lot to say but doesn’t get the time to say it Enjambement -> left hanging
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conlapsaque membra marmoreo referunt thalamo stratisque reponunt
Pathos invoked Marmoreo promoted ahead of nominative -> emphasised Marble is cold and hard- no comfort -> extended metaphor for the Underworld Dramatic irony increases pity and tension
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at pius Aeneas
Change in tone Pius -> devotion to gods, family Epithet
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avertere curas, multa gemens, magnoque animum labefactus amore
avertere -> used by Dido -> she wants to turn away from him and he wants to turn aside her concerns Multa, magnoque -> emphatic words show he is genuinely upset Elision emphasises animum -> shows the depth of his distress Magnoque promoted above amore
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exsequitur classemque revisit
Ex -> shows his loyalty as he follows the commands of the gods to the end, throughly Showing his devotion to the gods, even in his emotional state Regression -> Aeneas is returning to his old life, links to when Dido is brought back to his bed
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illa solo fixos oculos aversa tenebat
Assonance -> miserable phonology Away prefix
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nec magis incepto vultum sermone movetur
Incepto promoted above sermone Ablative absolute She is implacable
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quam si dura silex aut stet Marpesia cautes
Simile -> vivid Marpesia -> island of Paros -> famous for white marble, paints vivid picture of her
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tandem corripuit sese, atque inimica refugit in nemus umbriferum
Frisson Elision emphasises inimica Refugit - regressing Shadowy imagery
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Prosequitur lacrimis longe, et miseratur euntem
Present tense helps us dwell on a poignant moment Escorting a body in a funeral Lacrimis above miseratur -> pathos

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