Classics: The Aeneid - Quote Fragments

"I sing of ..." (Book 1)

"I sing of arms and of the man fated to be an exile - and come to Italy."

"Famous for ..." (Book 1)

"Famous for his piety" (Aeneas)

"Can there be ... gods?" (Book 1)

"Can there be so much anger in the hearts of heavenly gods?"

"He showed them ... and kept his..." (Book 1)

"He showed them the face of hope and kept his misery deep in his heart." (Aeneas)

"Aeneas, who ... his men." (Book 1)

"Aeneas, who loved his men"

"Why do you so often ... you too ..." (Book 1)

"Why do you so often mock your own son by taking on these disguises? You too are cruel." (Aeneas to Venus)

"Why am I never ... hear your ... and speak to you ..." (Book 1)

"why am I never allowed to take your hand in mine, to hear your true voice and speak to you as you really are?" (Aeneas to Venus)

"Dido was like ... she bore herself ..." (Book 1)

"Dido was like Diana, and like Diana, she bore herself joyfully among her people."

"He had no equal ... and no equal ..." (Book 1)

"He had no equal for his piety and his care for justice, and no equal in the field of battle." (Aeneas - described by his men)

"(Cupid) gradually began to ... trying to turn ..." (Book 1)

"(Cupid) gradually began to erase the memory of Sychaeus, trying to turn a heart that had been long at peace and unused to battle." (Dido)

"Venus meanwhile was ... and devising ..." (Book 1)

"Venus meanwhile was turning over new schemes in her mind and devising new plans."

"So heavy ..." (Book 1)

"So heavy was the cost of founding the Roman race."

"But ... no rest - all his thoughts ..." (Book 1)

"But a father's love allowed Aeneas' mind no rest - all his thoughts were on dear Ascanius."

"Come then ... back." (Book 2)

"Come then, dear father, and up on my back." (Aeneas to Anchises)

"So ... for the ... by my side." (Book 2)

"So anxious was I, so afraid both for the man I carried and for the child at my side" (Aeneas)

"... I called her name ..." (Book 2)

"Grief-stricken, I called her name 'Creusa! Creusa!'" (Aeneas)

"His body trembling ...his son's blood." (Book 2)

"His body trembling as it slithered through pools of his son's blood." (Priam - dragged by Pyrrhus)

"His mighty trunk lay ... a corpse ..." (Book 2)

"His mighty trunk lay on the shore, the head hacked from the shoulders, a corpse without a name." (Priam - killed by Pyrrhus)

"At Drepanum, to my ... who had been my ... in every ..." (Book 3)

"At Drepanum, to my great grief I lost my father Anchises, who had been my support in every difficulty and disaster."

"Dido and the leader of the Trojans ... This day was ..." (Book 4)

"Dido and the leader of the Trojans took refuge together - This day was the beginning of her death."

"Suffering from ... feeding it with her ... and being ..." (Book 4)

"Suffering from love's deadly wound, feeding it with her blood and being consumed by it's hidden fire." (Dido)

"Love gave her ..." (Book 4)

"Love gave her body no peace or rest." (Dido)

"Forgetting about .. and ..." (Book 4)

"Forgetting about their kingdoms and becoming slaves to lust." (Aeneas and Dido)

"Have you ... your own ..." (Book 4)

"Have you entirely forgotten your own kingdom and your own destiny?" (Mercury to Aeneas)

"She replied ... 'you are a ..." (Book 4)

"She replied on a blaze of passion: 'You are a traitor'" (Dido to Aeneas)

"Dido was overwhelmed ..." (Book 4)

"Dido was overwhelmed by grief and possessed by madness."

"Raved ... like a ..." (Book 4)

"Raved around the city like a bacchant." (Dido)

"Let the Trojan ... gaze his fill ... and take with him ..." (Book 4)

"Let the Trojan who knows no pity gaze his fill upon this fire from the high seas and take with him the omen of my death." (Dido)

"It is easy to ... but to retrace ..." (Book 6)

"It is easy to go down to the underworld - but to retrace your steps and escape to the upper air, that is the task." (Sybil)

"Few have ... loved and ..." (Book 6)

"Few have succeeded, sons of the gods loved and favoured by Jupiter." (Sybil)

"Aeneas seized ... impatiently." (Book 6)

"Aeneas seized the branch instantly, it resisted but he broke it off impatiently." (Aeneas' fate?)

"Among them in that great wood was ... her ..." (Book 6)

"Among them in that great wood was Phoenician Dido, her wound still fresh."

"He wept ... 'Alas! Alas!' ..." (Book 6)

"He wept and spoke sweet words of love to her - 'Alas! Alas! Was I the cause of your dying?'" (Aeneas to Dido)

"Recognising her ... like a man who sees ... clouds" (Book 6)

"Recognising her dim form in the darkness like a man who sees - the new moon rising through the clouds" (Dido)

"Burning ..." (Book 6)

"Burning spirit." (Dido)

"Aeneas - stricken by ..." (Book 6)

"Aeneas - stricken by the injustice of her fate."

"Father Anchises was ... walking ..." (Book 6)

"Father Anchises was deep in a green valley, walking among the souls."

"With tears ... 'You come ..." (Book 6)

"With tears streaming down his cheeks 'You come at last, I knew your devotion would prevail'" (Anchises to Aeneas)

"Three times he tried ... three times ..." (Book 6)

"Three times he tried to put his arms around his father's neck, three times the phantom melted in his hands." (Aeneas)

"I shall tell you ... men of Italian stock." (Book 6)

"I shall tell you of the glory that lies in store for the sons of Dardanus, for the men of Italian stock." (Anchises to Aeneas)

"Look at this ... here he is, Augustus Caesar ... golden years" (Book 6)

"Look at this family of o=yours, your ow Romans - here he is, Augustus Caesar, son of a god, the man who will bring back the golden years."

"I shall speak of ... spirit." (Book 7)

"I shall speak of war and of kings driven into the ways of death by their pride of spirit"

"Pierced by ..." (Book 7)

"Pierced by bitter resentment" (Juno)

"Here I am, great ... by Aeneas" (Book 7)

"Here I am, great Juno, wife of Jupiter, and i am being thwarted - defeated by Aeneas."

"I come here from the home of ... my sisters ... death." (Book 7)

"I come here from the home of the dread furies, my sisters, and in my hands I carry war and death."

"Dear to her heart were ..." (Book 7)

"Dear to her heart were the horrors of war, anger, treachery and vicious accusation." (Fury)

"Leave ... war is the ..." (Book 7)

"Leave peace and war to men. War is the business of men." (Turnus to Allecto)

"Lodged deep ... light" (Book 7)

"Lodged deep in his heart, smoking with a black light." (Turnus - anger)

"The Queen of the gods ... bursting the iron bound gates ..." (Book 7)

"The Queen of the Gods came down from the sky and struck the stubborn doors, bursting the iron-bound Gates of War"

"The ... raged within him, the ... of war and anger." (Book 7)

"The lust for battle raged within him, the criminal madness of war and anger." (Turnus)

"Suddenly, Iulus said as a joke ..." (Book 7)

"Suddenly, Iulus said as a joke 'Look! We are even eating our own tables!"

"Fate was ... when you ..." (Book 8)

"Fate was calling you when you came to this place." (Evander)

"Aeneas addressed the king with ... Fortune has willed that ... as a ... with an ..."

"Aeneas addressed the king with words of friendship 'Fortune has willed that I should come to you as a suppliant with an olive branch"

"Evander's ... home." (Book 8)

"Evander's humble home."

"Caesar was riding ..." (Book 8)

"Caesar was riding into Rome in triple triumph." (Vulcan's shield)

"Your mother will ... but ..." (Book 9)

"Your mother will be my mother in everything but the name Creusa." (Ascanius to Euryalus)

"Nisus was like ... jaws dripping ..." (Book 9)

"Nisus was like a lion driven mad with hunger - jaws dripping with blood as he mauls and champs their soft flesh."

"Euryalus had forgotten about ... it's ..." (Book 9)

"Euryalus had forgotten about the helmet, it's glittering betrayed him."

"His only offence is to ..." (Book 9)

"His only offence is to have loved the wrong friend too much" (Nisus)

"Then, pierced ... he hurled himself ... and rested ..." (Book 9)

"Then, pierced through and through, he hurled himself on the dead body of his friend and rested there at last in the peace of death." (Nisus and Euryalus)

"Like a ... when it's stem ..." (Book 9)

"Like a scarlet flower languishing and dying when it's stem has been cut by the plough." (Euryalus)

"Is this you ... How could you ..." (Book 9)

"Is this you - Euryalus? How could you leave me alone so cruelly" (Euryalus' mother)

"Throw all your ... Let me be ..." (Book 9)

"Throw all your spears at me! Let me be the first to die." (Euryalus' mother)

"You have ... young Iulus, and we ... you are ... and will ..." (Book 9)

"You have become a man, young Iulus, and we salute you! You are born of the gods and will live to be the father of gods." (Apollo to Ascanius)

"Turnus in a fury ... the walls like ..." (Book 9)

"Turnus in a fury prowled around the walls like a wolf in the dead of night"

"Each man has ... but the task of the ... is to ..." (Book 10)

"Each man has his allotted day, but the task of the brave man is to enlarge his fame by his actions." (Jupiter)

"In ... Pallas tore the warm blade out of the wound" (Book 10)

"In desperation Pallas tore the warm blade out of the wound"

"The mind of man ..." (Book 10)

"The mind of man has no knowledge of what fate holds in store" (Virgil interrupts narrative at point of Pallas' death)

"Aeneas confronted them all ..." (Book 10)

"Aeneas confronted them all in his fury raging victorious."

"Let me lie ...." (Book 10)

"Let me lie in a grave with my son." (Mezentius)

"There he lay like a ... a soft ..." (Book 11)

"There he lay like a flower cut by the thumbnail of a young girl, a soft violet or a drooping lily." (Pallas)

"With tears ..." (Book 11)

"With tears rolling down in great drops and soaking its face" (Pallas' horse)

"Formidable ..." (Book 11)

"Formidable warrior maiden" (Camilla)

"There in the middle of all ... was ..." (Book 11)

"There in the middle of all this bloodshed, exulting in it, was Amazon Camilla"

"Burning with ... for ..." (Book 11)

"Burning with a woman's passion for spoils and plunder."

"Yielding to ... as her life ..." (Book 11)

"Yielding to death - as her life left her with a groan and fled in anger down to the shades." (Camilla - echoes Turnus)

"Turnus is not free to ... his ... or ... shall ..." (Book 12)

"Turnus is not free to hold back the day of his death, his blood, or mine, shall decide this war." (Turnus in third person)

"His cheeks were ...and there was a pallor ..." (Book 12)

"His cheeks were like a boys and there was a pallor all over his youthful body." (Turnus)

"He took Ascanius in ... through the ... saying ..." (Book 12)

"He took Ascanius in an armed embrace and kissed him lightly through the helmet, saying 'From me, my son, you can learn courage and hard toil." (Aeneas)

"Father Aeneas, the founder of ... with his ..." (Book 12)

"Father Aeneas, the founder of the Roman race, with his divine armour and his shield like a star"

"Aeneas ... in his ... but he checked his hand - his eyes caught on ... this reminder of ..." (Book 12)

"Aeneas, deadly in his armour, rolling his eyes, but he checked his hand - his eyes caught on the fatal baldric of the boy Pallas - this reminder of his own wild grief."

"So this is ... Will anything that is mine ..." (Book 12)

"So this is immortality! Will anything that is mine be sweet without you, my brother?" (Juturna)

"Such was the ... sparks flew ... and his ... He was like a ..." (Book 12)

"Such was the blazing fury that drove him on. Sparks flew from his whole face and his piercing eyes flashed fire. He was like a bull coming into his first battle." (Turnus)

"Aeneas ... leaning on his ..." (Book 12)

"Aeneas, growling savagely, leaning on his great spear and unmoved by their tears."

"The limbs of Turnus ... and his ... down to the shades" (Book 12)

"The limbs of Turnus were dissolved in cold and his life left him with a groan, fleeing in anger down to the shadows."

"He was in a ... tugging ... and demanding ... and get him ..." (Book 12)

"He was in a fury, tugging at the arrowhead - and demanding that they should take the quickest way of helping him - and get him back into battle" (Aeneas)