Book 6 - The Underworld

• Devout Aeneas
• She [priestess] seemed to grow in stature and speak as no mortal had ever spoken when the god came to her in his power and breathed upon her
• ’I pray that from this moment the fortunes of Troy may follow us no further’ (Priestess)
• ’I see wars, deadly wars’ (Priestess)
• ‘Suffering cannot come to me in any new or unforeseen form’ (Aeneas)
• ‘It was my father himself who begged and commanded me to come to you as a suppliant and approach your doors’ (Aeneas)
• Aeneas took the lead in all this work, urging on his comrades and carrying at his side the same tools as they
• It resisted, but he broke it off impatiently
• He hastened to carry out the commands of the Sibyl
• ‘Now you need your courage. Now let your heart be strong’ (Priestess)
• Aeneas recognised this sorrowing figure [Palinurus] with difficulty in the dark shadow and was the first to speak
• ‘I felt no fear for myself to equal my fear that your ship might come to grief‘ (Palinurus)
• ‘If the sight of such devotion does not move you..’ (Priestess)
• He wept and spoke sweet words of love to her [Dido]
• ‘I swear by the stars... it was against my will’ (Aeneas)
• Aeneas was no less stricken by the injustice of her fate and long did he gaze after her with tears
• ‘I knew your devotion would prevail over all the rigour of the journey and bring you to your father’ (Anchises)
• Three times the phantom melted in his hands
• ’Come now and I shall tell you of the glory that lies in store for the sons of Dardanus’ (Anchises)
• ‘Augustus Caesar, son of a god, the man who will bring back the golden years‘ (Anchises)
• ’Hercules himself did not make his way to so many lands‘ (Anchises)
• Anchises had shown each and every sight to his son and kindled in his mind a love for the glory that was to come
• He sent them on their journey, through the Gate of Ivory
• ‘Impose a settled pattern upon peace, to pardon the defeated and war down the proud’ (Anchises)