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Quotes from Aeneid
"I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to
journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the
lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the
savage Juno's unforgetting anger." (Book 1, lines 1-7)
This quote describes
It imitates the opening of
Here Aeneus is tormented by Juno, who the Greeks
called
What Greek hero was tormented similarly?
They wandered as their destiny drove them on from one sea to the next: so hard
and huge a task it was to found the Roman people. (Book 1, lines 48-49)
What theme from the book is expressed here?
We had a king, Aeneus—none more just, more zealous, greater in warfare, and in
arms. (Book 1, lines 161-162)
Here, Ilioneaus, who is ___________________
speaks to __________. The one thing he adds here
that would not be in Greek praise of a king is
_______.
"just as the bees in early summer, busy/ beneath the sunlight through the flowered
meadows." (Book 1, lines 611-12 )
This quote describes the ____________ doing what?
"'The man you seek is here. I stand before you, Trojan Aeneas, torn from Libyan
waves. O you who were alone in taking pity on the unutterable trials of Troy, who
welcome us as allies to your city and home- a remnant left by Greeks, harassed by
all disasters known on land and sea.'" (Book 1, lines 836-842)
How could these theme serve the purposes of Virgil’s
benefactor—the Emperor Augustus?
Where is this place?
This is ______________ speaking to ___________.
He is thankful to her for
Would you care to join us in our realm on equal terms? (Book 1, lines 195-196)
Here ____________ speaks to ___________.
"'tell us all / things from the first beginning: Grecian guile,/ your people's trials,
and then your journeyings.'" (Book 1, lines 1049-51)
This is ______________ speaking to ___________.
Her tone is ___________
"'Do you believe the enemy have sailed away? Or think that any Grecian gifts are
free of craft? Is this the way Ulysses acts? Either Achaeans hide, shut in this
wood, or else this is an engine built against
our walls.... (Book 2, lines 60-70)
Here _________________________ speaks to
____________
Even when Greeks bring gifts I fear them, gifts and all. (Book 2, lines 68-69)
What’s the well known translation of this line?
I beg you, by the gods above, the powers in whom truth lives, and by what faith
remains uncontaminated to men, take pity on pain so great and so unmerited!”
For tears we gave him life, and pity too. Priam himself ordered the gyves removed
and the tight chain between. (Book 2, lines 183-191)
Speaker:
This speaker expresses the Roman belief that Greeks
are
The ripped away the statue, the Palladium (Statue of Athena) desecrating with
bloddy hands the virginal chaplets of the goddess. (Book 2, lines 222-224)
Who does this?
“' ...four times it stalled before the gateway, at the very threshold; four times the
arms clashed loud inside its belly. Nevertheless, heedless, blinded by frenzy, we
press right on and set the inauspicious monster inside the sacred fortress.'" Book 2,
lines 315-329
Who is doing what in this scene?
O Hector, have you come, long, long awaited? After so many deaths of friends
and brothers, after a world of pain for all our folk and all our town, at last,
boneweary, we behod you! what has happened to ravage your serene face? Why
these wounds? He wasted no reply on my poor questions but heaved a great sigh
from his chest and said: “Ai! Give up and go, child of the goddess, save yourself,
out of these flames.” (Book 2, lines 370-379)
Here ________ speaks to the ghost of Hector.
To arm was my first maddening impulse—not that anyone had a fighting chance
in arms; Only I burned to gather up some force for combat and to man some high
redoubt. So fury drove me, and it came to me that meeting death was beautiful in
arms. Then here, eluding the Achaean spears, Cam Panthus, Orthyrus’ son, priest
of Apollo, carhing holy things, our conquered gods, and pulling a small
Here, Aeneus’s first impulse is to act like which
Greek hero?
Interestingly, the is exactly the thing a hero in the
Iliad refused to do. What Hero was that?
Here Virgil stresses what about that act?
What values turn him from that Greek response?
grandchild along. (Book 2, lines 411-421)
"'Poor husband, what wild thought drives you/ to wear these weapons now?
Where would you rush?'" (Book 2, lines 699-700)
Here Penates, who was ___________ wife, tells him
not to
You’d report the news to Pelides, my father; don’t forget my sad behavior, the
degeneracy or Neoptolemus. Now die.
The speaker here is Pyrrhus, also called Neoptolemus.
He is the son of ___________________. He is
speaking to ___________, whom he’s telling to speak
to his father in _____.
Away child; put an end to toiling so. I shall be near, to see you safely home. She
hid herself in the deep gloom of night, and now the dire forms appeared to me of
great immortals, enemies of Troy. I knew the end then: Ilium was going down in
fire, the Troy of Neptune going down, as in high mountains when the countrymen
have notched an ancient ash, then make their exes ring with might and main,
chopping away to fell the tree—ever on the point of falling, shaken through all its
foliage, and threetop nodding, bit by bit, the strokes prevail until it gives a final
groan at last and crashed down in ruin from the height. (Book 2, lines 782-799)
In the beginning of this quote, ______________
speaks to
Unlucky Dido, burning, in her madness roamed through all the city, like a doe, hit
by an arrow shot from far away. (Book 4, lines 90-93)
In this metaphor, Dido is like a doe, a female deer,
because
Now he turned his eyes upon the queen’s town and the lvoers careless of their
good name, then spoke to Mercury, assigning him a mission: “Son, bestir yourself,
call up the Zephers, take to your wings and glide. Approach the Dardan captain
where he tarries rapt in Tyrian Carthage, losing sight of future towns the fates
ordain. Correct him” (Book 4, lines 123-128)
Here ____________ tells Mercury to go do what?
_____________. This is an example of a grand
metaphor—something very common in all epic
poems. What two things are being compared here?
Sister, what a great city you’ll see rising here, and what a kindom, from this royal
match! With Trojan soldiers as compainions in arms, By what exploits with Punic
glory grow! (Book 4, lines 62-69)
Here Anna, who is ________________, tells Dido to
No goddess was your mother. Dardanus was not the founder of your family. Liar
and cheat! . . . Do not let love or treaty tie our peoples. May an avenger rise up
from my bones, one who will track with firebrand and sword the Dardan settlers,
now and in the future, at any time that ways present themselves. (Book 4, lines
861-6)
Here _____________ speaks to ____________
Time is all I beg, mere time, a respite and a breathing space for madness to
subside in. (Book 4, lines 411-413)
Here ______________ begs _____________ for ____
Her quivering cheeks were flecked with red as her sick pallor grew before her
coming death. Into the court she burst her way, then at her passion’s height she
climbed the pyre and bared the Dardan sword—a gift desired once, for no such
need. Her eyes now on the Trojan clothing there and the familiar bed, she paused
a little, weeping a little, mindful, then lay down and spoke her last words:
“Remnant dear to me while god and fated allowed it, take this breath and give me
respite from these agonies. . . . I die unavenged, but let me die. This way, this
way, a blessed releif to go into the undergloom. (Book 4, lines 697-722)
Here _______________ dies.
By turns I swam and rested, swam again and got my footing on the beach, but
savages attacked me as I clutched at a cliff top, weighted down by my wet clothes.
(Book 6, lines 116-120)
Here one of Aeneus’s men, Palinurus, tells Aeneus
how he died. An oracle of Apollo told Aeneus what
about Palinurus?
In doing so, she refers to the Greek idea that emotion
is
Here, Palinurus is killed by savages because he is
weighed down by clothing—a symbol of civilization.
Who else, in the poem, is shown symbolically
weighed down by civilization?
I beg you, by your father, and by your hopes of Iulus’ rising star, deliver me from
the captivity, unconquered friend! Throw earth on me. (Book 6, lines 122-124)
Here Palinurus speaks to Aeneus. Who is Iulu?
Quote 23: "'And I could not believe that with my going I should bring
so great a grief as this. But stay your steps. Do not retreat from me. Whom do you
flee? This is the last time fate will let us speak.'" (Book 6, lines 610-3)
Here ____________ speaks to ______________, who
then
Why is it so important to Palinurus that his body be
buried?