Book 2 (Aeneid) Quotes

• "It is no sin for me to break my sacred oaths of allegiance to the Greeks. It is no sin for me to hate these men and bring all their secrets out into the open."


  Sinon
• "This was the last day of a doomed people and we spent it adorning the shrines of the gods all through the city with festal garlands."

  Aeneas
• "The Trojans are no more. Ilium has come to an end and with it the great glory of the race of Teucer."

  Panthus
• "The one safety for the defeated is to have no hope of safety."

  Aeneas
• "You pretend that Achilles was your father, but this is not how Achilles would have treated his enemy."


  Priam
• "Today we die. But not all of us shall die unavenged."


  Aeneas
• "Your first duty is to guard this house."


  Creusa