The Aenied Flashcards
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I sing of arms
and of the man, fated to be an exile
fierce and unforgetting
anger of Juno
a man famous for his
piety
So heavy was the cost of
founding the Roman race
a sudden chill went through Aeneas and
his limbs grew weak
many, many times more
fortunate than I
I have given them an empire
that will know no end
the dread gates of war with their tight
fastenings of steel will then be closed
godless strife will sit inside the on his
murderous armour roaring hideously from bloody mouth
her hair was unbound and
streaming in the wind
your face is not the face
of a mortal
why am I never allowed to take you hand in mine, to hear
your true voice and speak to you as you really are?
the goddess spread a great
veil of cloud over them
the hive seethes
with activity
there are tears for suffering and men’s hearts are touched
by what man has to bear
queen dido in all her
beauty… she was like diana
His own mother had breathed upon her
son and given beauty to his hair and the sparkle of joy to his eyes
Dido takes you happily on to her
lap and gives you sweet kisses, and you can then breathe fire and poison into her and she will not know
doomed to be the victim of a
plague
doomed
dido
my mind recoiled in anguish when you asked and I
shudder to remember
the creatures womb quivered and the hollow carverns
boomed and groaned
o you poor
fools!
Cunning and false
tears had overcome the men who had not been subdued… not by ten years of siege
(storm) men shouted,
ropes screamed
(Carthage) they were like
bees at the beginning of summer
Aeneas saw a strange sight which for the first
time allayed his fears
our king is aeneas
He had no equal for his piety and his care
but who could fail to know
about the people of Aeneas and his ancestory
unmarried girls and boys sang hyms around it and
rejoiced to have a hand on the rope
gliding
smoothly
you must escape
son of a goddess. you must save yourself from these flames
Frenzy and anger
drove me on and suddenly it seemed a noble thing to die in arms
like a ancient ash tree
high in the mountains…blow upon blow…threatens to fall…dying groan
as I ran toward her ranting
and raving, suddenly appeared before my eyes
the flame seemed to
lick his soft hair
Little Iulus
twined his fingers in my right hand
Creusa was torn from me by
the cruelty of fate
I stormed and
raged and blamed everyman that ever was
There prosperity is waiting for you,
and a kingdom and a royal bride
With these words Anna
lit a fire of wild loove
The flame was eating
the soft marrow of her bones
(Anna says she shouldn’t live) without knowing the delight
of children and the rewards of love
he would be the man to rule an Italy
pregnant with empire
(Mercury) Have you entirely forgotten your own kingdom
and your own destiny
The warning, the command from the gods
had struck him like a thunderbolt
utterly betrayed and
desolate
But Aeneas was
faithful to his duty
Much as he longed to soothe her…
he nevertheless carried out the commands of the gods
uproot the
mighty oak
stop the flow of
rivers and turn stars back in their courses
Women are
unstable creatures
I have not kept faith with
the ashes of Sychaeus
to think that it was my hands
that built the pyre
the cause of all this trojan suffuring will be
a foreign bride
Aeneas took lead
in all this work
Aeneas strode
fearlessly along beside her
vast quagmire of boiling
whirlpools which belches sand
begging… stretching out their arms
in longing for the further shores
The son of Anchises checked his stride and
stood stock still with many thoughts coursing through his mind as he pitied their cruel fate
in that instant he wept and spoke
sweet words of love to her
I swear by the stars, by the gods above, by whatever their is to sear by in the depths of the earth,
it was against my will
let us
hasten
(Deiphobus) there is no need for anger
great princess
I knew your devotion
would prevail
I counted the
hours knowing you would come
Three times
the phantom melted in his hands
Come now, and I shall tell you of
the glory that lies in store
the other is made all in gleaming whit eivory, but through it the powers of the underworld send
false dreams up toward the heavans
The princess’ hair was
blazing, her crown with all its lovely jewels was blazing
A sacred building, massive and soaring to the sky with
100 columns, stood on the highest point of the city
He spoke at last,
and joyfully
Allecto
bringer of grief
Dear to her heart were the horrors of
war, anger and viscous accusations
Taking one of the sankes from her
dark hair, the goddess Alecto threw it on Amata’s breast to enter deep into her heart
liquid
venom
Turnus was laughing…war is the
business of men
she threw a burning torch at the warrior
and it lodged deep in his heart, smoking with black light
In a frenzy of rage
he roared for his armour
The list for battle raged within him,
the criminal madness of war, and above all, anger
Last of all came
Camillia… she could could have skimmed the tops of standing crop without touching them
The scorner of gods
Mezentius
You must choose your leaders from
across seas
my only source of
joy
Augustus Caesar, leading the men of Italy into battle alongside
the senate and the people
from his radiant forehead there
streamed a double flame
