Level 3 Classics Aeneid Quotes

Quotes from Virgil's 'Aeneid' for use in the NCEA level 3 external exam

Aeneas Furor 1 (Book 10)

"...blazing with rage as his sword-blade hacks that path, hunting for you Turnus, so proud of your latest kill."

Aeneas Pietas 1 (Book 2)

"So come, dear father, climb up onto my shoulders! I will carry you on my back. This labour of love will never wear me down."

Aeneas Leadership 1

"Where are you running? Why this sudden outbreak, why these clashes? Rein your anger in!"

Dido Furor 1 (Book 4)

"No love between our peoples, ever, no pacts of peace!"

Dido Pietas 1 (Book One)

"They seize some galleys set to sail, load them with gold - the wealth Pygmalion craved - and they bear it overseas and a woman leads them all."

Aeneas/Venus Identity 1 (Book 1)

"My son, what grief could incite such blazing anger? Why such fury?"

Aeneas Furor 2 (Book 12)

"Then, at last, he hurtles into the thick of battle as Mars drives him on, and terrible, savage, inciting slaughter, sparing none, he gives his rage free rein."

Aeneas Pietas 2 (Book 2)

"These were her parting words for all my tears - I longed to say so much - dissolving into the empty air she left me now."

Dido Furor 2 (Book 4)

"So, you traitor, you really believed you'd keep this a secret, this great outrage? Steal away in silence from my shores?"

Aeneas/Mercury Relationship 1

"Building her gorgeous city, doting on your wife. Blind to your own realm, oblivious to your fate!"

Aeneas Gods 1

"...if our devotion has earned it, grant us another omen, Father, seal this first clear sign."

Aeneas/Creusa Fate 1

"My dear husband, why so eager to give yourself to such mad flights of grief? It's not without the will of the Gods these things have come to pass."

When was the Aeneid

Between 30 and 19 BCE

Who wrote the Aeneid?

Virgil