AENIED SIMILIES AND METAPHORS

BOOK 9

Turnus is likened to a ‘wolf prowling’ when he is trying to attack the Trojan camps. ‘the wolf rages, frenzied with hunger, starved for so long’ implies Turnus is driven by necessity to kill Aeneas

Nisus - while he kills the Italians on their camp, he is likened to a ‘wild, starved lion’ whose ‘hunger drives him mad’ - Through animal similes, Virgil is able to better embellish attributes and qualities of his characters

Turnus - likened to an eagle that snatches up a hare or swan & ‘the wolf of mar mars that rips the lamb from it’s pen and it’s mother’s cries fills the air with bleating’ also highlights the pathos of the Mother sheep - duality of war

BOOK 10

shield of Aeneas 'likened to a ‘lethal glow of a comet on a clear night’ - vivid, incadescent, illuminated

Mzentius is likened to a ‘wild boar’ and ‘famished lion’

BOOK 11 -
Latin and trojan troops charging towards each other: ‘picture an ocean rolling’ floods in the shore, the smacking of waves on the cliffs. When the killing breaks out, the sea becomes a sea of blood

BOOK 12

Aeneas and Turnus are likened to 2 bulls charging to each other - both grunting and bellowing like ravenous bulls - suggests equal ground between the 2 fighters