Aeneid Book 1 Quotes/People

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Am I to admit defeat and give up my attempt to keep the king of the Trojans away from Italy?

Juno

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I have waged war all these years against a whole race of men!

Juno

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Will there be no one in the future to pray to me and lay an offering on my altars?

Juno

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I have fourteen nymphs of the rarest beauty, and the loveliest of them al is Deiopea.

Juno

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Through you I have a couch to lien on at the feasts of the gods, and my power over cloud and storm comes from you.

Aeolus

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Those whose fate it was to die beneath the high walls of Troy with their fathers looking down on them were many, many times more fortunate than I.

Aeneas

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O Diomede, bravest of the Greeks, why could I not have fallen to your right hand and breathed out my life on the plains of Troy, where fierce Hector fell by the sword of Achilles, where great Sarpedon lies and where the river Simois caught upso many shields and helmets and bodies of brave men and rolled them down its current?

Aeneas

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Is it your noble birth that has made you so sure of yourselves?

Neptune

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I could take you now and…but first I must still the waves you have stirred up.

Neptune

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What crime have the Trojans committed that they should suffer all this loss of life and the whole world be closed to them for the sake of Italy?

Venus

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Did you not promise that with the rolling years there would come a time when from this stock the Romans would arise?

Venus

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From this blood of Teucer, recalled to Italian soil, there would come leaders of men who would hold power over every land and sea.

Venus

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We are betrayed and kept far away from the shores of Italy because there is one who hates us.

Venus

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There will come a day, as the years glide by, when the house of Assaracus will reduce Achilles’ Pthia and glorious Mycenae to slavery and will conquer and rule the city of Argos.

Jupiter

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The dread GAtes of WAr with their tight fastenings of stell will then be closed, and godless Strife will sit inside them on his murderous armour roaring hideously from bloody mouth, hands shackled behind his back with a hundred bands of bronze.

Jupiter

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What shore of the world is this on which we now wander, tossed here by the fury of wind and wave?

Aeneas

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I carry with me on my ships the gods of my home, the Penates, wrested from my enemies, and my fame has reached beyond the skies.

Aeneas

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I embarked upon the Phrygian sea with twenty ships, following the destiny which had been given to me, and now a bare seven of them remain, and these torn to pieces by wind and wave.

Aeneas

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I am a helpless stranger, driven out of Europe and out of Asia, tramping the desert wastes of Libya.

Aeneas

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Look at these twelve swans flying joyfully in formation.

Venus

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Just as they come to their home and their flock has circled the sky in play, singing as they fly with whirring wings, so your ships and your warriors are either already in port or crossing the bar in full sail.

Venus

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Why do you so often mock your own son by taking on these disguises?

Aeneas

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How fortunate they are!

Aeneas

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Here too there is just reward for merit, there are tears for suffering and men’s hearts are touched by what man has to bear.

Aeneas

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Save our ships from the impious thread of fire.

Ilioneus

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Put every anxious thought out of your hearts.

Dido

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May the gods bring you the reward you deserve, if there are any gods who have regard for goodness, if there is any justice in the world, if their minds have any sense of right.

Aeneas

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While rivers run into the sea, while shadows of mountains move in processions round the curves of valleys, while the sky feeds the stars, your honour, you name, and your praise will remain forever in every land to which I am called.

Aeneas

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What sort of chance is this that hounds the son of a goddess through all these dangers?

Dido

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I, too, have known ill fortune like yours and been tossed from one wretchedness to another until at last I have been allowed to settle in this land.

Dido

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Through my own suffering, I am learning to help those who suffer.

Dido

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He is a boy like yourself, and you know him, so put on his features, and when the royal table is flowing with wine and brings release, and Dido takes you happily on to her lap and gives you sweet kisses, you can then breathe fire and poison into her and she will not know.

Venus

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Jupiter, to you we pray, since men say that you ordain the laws of hospitality.

Dido

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Come tell your hosts from the beginning about the treachery of the Greeks, the sufferings of your people and your own wanderings, for this is now the seventh summer that has carried you as a wanderer over every land and sea.

Dido