WOMEN COMPARISON

Question 1

“All the women lifted up their hands

Answer 1

with wailing to Athene”

Question 2

“Opened out the fold of her dress

Answer 2

and and held out a breast in her hand”

Question 3

“Now I have you lying here

Answer 3

in the house sweet and fresh as dew”

Question 4

“he fell and vomited

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his life’s blood before their eyes ”

Question 5

“In your hands rest the honour and the power of Latinus.

Answer 5

Our whole house is falling and you are it’s one support”

Question 6

“If you die, I too will leave the light I loathe.”

Answer 6

I shall never live to be a captive and see Aeneas married to Lavinia

Question 7

“seeing her own death before her, she tried to check the frenzy of Turnus,

Answer 7

the man she had chosen to be the husband of her daughter”

Question 8

“How I wish that on the first day when my mother bore me

Answer 8

some vile storm-wind had taken me and whirled me up to the mountains”

Question 9

“Brother of the bitch,

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the scheming horrible creature that I am”

Question 10

“just now my wife talked me round with gentle

Answer 10

persuasion and urged me back to war”

Question 11

“If anyone spoke harshly of me in the house…

Answer 11

you would speak winning words to them and stop them.

Question 12

“The passion flared in my heart and I longed,

Answer 12

in my anger, to avenge my country even as it fell, to exact the penalty of her crimes”

Question 13

“It is not the hated Spartan woman… that is

Answer 13

overthrowing all this wealth… it is the gods, the cruelty of the gods”

Question 14

“once again the cause of Trojan suffering will be a

Answer 14

foreign bride, another marriage with a stranger”

Question 15

“As when Indian ivory has been stained with blood red die, or when white lilies

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are crowded by roses and take on their red,

Question 16

“There will be no other comfort left for me,

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when you meet your fate”

Question 17

“do not make an orphan of your son

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and your wife a widow”

Question 18

“When you died it was not in your bed,

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you did not hold out your arms to me or tell me some weighty last word, which i could remember forever”

Question 19

“You are the only image left

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to me of my own son Astyanax”

Question 20

“Whether she

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stopped, sat down or lost her way, no one knows”

Question 21

“Creusa was

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torn from me by the cruelty of fate”

Question 22

“do not fail

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in your love for our son”

Question 23

“Cassandra, beautiful

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as golden Aphrodite”

Question 24

“She shrieked aloud

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then cried out to all the city”

Question 25

“She exacted punishment

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from her enemy in blood”

Question 26

blind to all else and unthinking,

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she tracked him with all a woman’s passion for spoil and plunder”

Question 27

“delight of children

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and the rewards of love”

Question 28

“Anna lit the fire

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of wild love in her sister’s breast”

Question 29

“This day was the beginning of her death,

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the first cause of her suffering”

Question 30

“She raged and raved

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around the whole city like a bacchant”

Question 31

“Because of you I have lost all conscience

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and self respect, and have thrown away the good name I once had”

Question 32

“If only there were

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a little Aeneas to play in my palace!”

Question 33

“Nor have I offered you marriage

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or entered into that contract with you”

Question 34

“I shall follow you not in the flesh

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but in the black fires of death”

Question 35

“What were your feelings,

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Dido, as you looked at this?”

Question 36

“Unhappy Dido

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prayed for death”

Question 37

“Once moe Dido tried to raise her heavy eyes,

Answer 37

but failed. The wound hissed round the sword beneath her breast”

Question 38

“Driven at last to madness they began to scream and

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snatch flames from the innermost hearths of the encampment”

Question 39

bringing up the rear

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was the greatest outrage of all, his Egyptian wife!”

Question 40

…as easily as the

Answer 40

sacred falcon flies from it’s crag to pursue a dove high in the cloud

Question 41

Have the army

Answer 41

take up position by the fig tree”