WAR COMPARISON Flashcards
“Come then,
dear father, up on my back…your weight will be nothing to me”
“Lausus moaned bitterly
for the father whom he loved”
“The father could withdraw
protected by the shield of the son”
“Glorious Hector
took the helmet straight from his head and laid it gleaming bright on the ground”
“He kissed his dear son
and dangled him in his arms”
“You did not hold out your arms to me
or tell me some weighty last word which I could remember forever”
“If anyone spoke harshly to me in the house…
you would speak winning words to them and stop them”
“Hecuba and her daughters were sitting flocked round the altar
like doves driven down in a black storm”
“he fell and vomited his
life’s blood before their eyes”
“You are the only image left to me of
my own son Astyanax”
“Priam cried loud for murderous Hector
huddled at the feet of Achilles, and Achilles cried for his own father”
“You and I shall avenge the sufferings of Lausus; or else
if that road is barred and no force can open it, we shall fall together”
“Burning with mad passion
and terrible in his wrath”
“hesitating more and more as the words
of Turnus began to move him”
“Euryalus had forgotten about the helmet
and it’s glittering betrayed him”
“He was wearing his belt on his shoulder
as a battle honour taken from an enemy”
“It is Pallas who exacts
the penalty in your guilty blood”
“Covered by his fine armour, the bronze
armour he had stripped from the mighty Patroclus when he killed him”
“Flesh showed where the collar bones
hold the join of the neck and shoulders”
“Patroclus lies dead, and they are fighting over his body.
It is naked now- Hector of the glittering hemet has his armour”
“Achilles began to
weep as he thought of his old companion”
“I’m sending
him back the Pallas he deserves”
“he was like the morning star,
which Venus loves above all other starry fires”
“As he died his
bleeding mouth bit the soil of his enemies”
“In desperation Pallas
tore the warm blade out of the wound and blood and life came out after it “
