Book 6 (Aeneid) Quotes

• "It was my father himself who begged and commanded me to come to you as a suppliant and approach your doors"


  Aeneas
• "Dutiful Aeneas raised a great mound as a tomb and set on it the hero's arms."


  Virgil
• "Sychaeus...answered her grief with grief and her love with love"


  Virgil
• "You have paid all that is owed to Deiphobus and to his dead shade"


  Deiphobus
• "I knew your devotion would prevail over all the rigour of the journey and bring you to your father"


  Anchises
• "Your task, Roman, and do not forget it, will be to govern your empire. These will be your arts- and to impose a settled pattern upon peace, to pardon the defeated and war down the proud."

  Anchises