The Aeneid: Book 4 Flashcards
The morning after hearing Aeneas’s story Dido confines in her sister _______.
Anna
Dido had swore not to love anyone after her dead husband, ________.
Sychaeus
Anna tells Dido that Carthage is surrounded by _______ and they could use a good _________. Let the Trojans stay for the _______.
enemies, alliance, winter
The city’s (Carthage) building projects _____ with no one to oversee them.
stall
The goddess _______ sees what’s going on and recognizes that ________ did it.
Juno, Venus
Juno suggests that Dido and Aeneas get married. She tells Venus this and Venus says they should consult ________ first.
Jupiter
Dido and Aeneas are going ________ so Juno makes it rain so that they will have to take shelter in a ________.
hunting, cave
Word that Aeneas and Dido are “married” makes it to North African king ________. His father is ________. He was once rejected by ______.
Iarbas, Jupiter, Dido
Jupiter looks at what is going on in Carthage. He sends _________ to tell Aeneas that he’s supposed to be finding a new city in Italy.
Mercury
Mercury goes and finds _________ supervising the building of Carthage’s walls.
Aeneas
Mercury tells Aeneas Jupiter’s message and tells Aeneas to think about _______ and the legacy he will be leaving him.
Ascanius
Mercury leaves and Aeneas tells the other Trojans to get the ______ ready for departure.
fleet
Aeneas tries to keep the preparations secret but _____ finds out and becomes angry.
Dido
When Dido confronts him Aeneas tell her that his ______ is appearing to him in dreams and _______ told him to get a move on and he has to leave a legacy for ________.
father, Mercury, Ascanius
Dido does not respond well and says she hopes his ________ sink.
ships
Then Dido runs away and _______. Her _______ carry her back to her bedroom.
faints, maids
Dido tells ______ to ask the Trojans to wait for better _____ before leaving.
Anna, winds
Water blackens on Dido’s _______ and wine turns to ______. _____ seem to arise from the shrine of her dead husband.
altars, blood, voices
Dido decides to commit _______.
suicide
Dido tells ______ to prepare a pyre to burn the things Aeneas left.
Anna
Dido considers following the _______. She decides against it and reaffirms to herself her intention to commit suicide. She is also motivated by ______ at having been unfaithful to the memory of _______.
Trojans, guilt, Sychaeus
Aeneas is asleep on the _______ of his beached ship. _________ comes to him in a dream to tell him to leave for Italy.
stern, Mercury
Dido prays that Aeneas’s mission will fail, and that his and her people will become ________.
enemies
Dido sends her sister’s old _______ to tell Anna to get a pyre ready.
nurse
After Anna builds the pyre Dido climbs on top of it and stabs herself with a ______ once given to her by _______.
sword, Aeneas
_____ climbs onto the pyre to try to save ______ but it’s too late.
Anna, Dido
Juno sends down _______, the messenger of the gods, to take a lock of Dido’s hair and prepare her for death. _____ does this and Dido dies.
Iris, Iris
