Book 7 Flashcards
Surpassing Odysseus
‘They skirted the land of Circe… Neptune kept them from sailing into the harbour or coming near that deadly shore’
Portents surrounding Latinus, Lavinia and Latium
‘To this tree there came by some miracle a cloud of bees.. A prophet thus interpreted “we see a stranger arriving, and an army from the same direction.. gaining mastery over the heights of the citadel”’
‘The princess’s hair was blazing… the horror and miracle of it was on everyone’s lips… it was prophesied that her own fate and fame would be bright, but that a great war would come upon the people’
Signs from Ascanius
Ascanius ‘Look, We are even eating our tables’
Aeneas ‘This is our home. This is our own land.’
Latinus
‘As a king he was moved to see the sceptre of Priam… but much more was he moved by the thought of a marriage and a husband for his daughter’
Juno
‘But here am I, great Juno, wife of Jupiter, thwarted, though I have tried everything that could be tried. Nothing has been too bold for me. And I am being defeated by Aeneas!’
Allecto
‘Taking one of the snakes from her hair, the goddess Allecto threw it on Amata’s breast… it slithered all over her body. While the first infection of the liquid venom was still oozing through all her senses and winding the fire about her bones…’
‘Amata driven out of her mind by her monstrous affliction, raged in a wild frenzy like a spinning top’ (note the same simile used for Dido’s madness in book 4)
‘“Euhoe Bacchus” she screamed’ (led all the women into the forest in Bacchic frenzy)
Attempt 2 at enraging Turnus
‘As he faltered and tried to go on speaking, she flung him back with her eyes flashing with fire, two snakes stood up on her head and she cracked her whips… the lust for battle raged within him’
The stag Ascanius shot (by accident as Allecto put his dogs onto the scent)
‘This was the first cause of all the suffering’
‘Fleeing to the home it knew so well, the wounded stag came into its pen moaning… stood their bleeding… filling the house with cries of anguish’
Latins
‘each man searched for what he could find and anger taught him how to make a weapon of it’
‘The trees shivered at the noise… Lake Trivia heard it… the river Nar heard it… terrified mothers…’
‘a dark crop of drawn swords sprouted all over the field’
First to die ‘Almo, the youngest son of Tyrrhus’ then ‘old Galaesus who died when he stepped between the armies to make peace’
Pageant of Latin warriors
‘The first to enter upon the war… was cruel Mezentius from Etruria… At his side was his son Lausus… a tamer of horses and hunter of wild beasts… He deserved a father whom it would have been more of a joy to obey, a father other than Mezentius’
‘There… was Turnus himself… the fairest of them all, and taller by a head than all the others’
‘Last of all came Camilla, the warrior maiden of the Volsci, leading a cavalry squadron, flowering in bronze’
