Book 8 (Aeneid) Quotes

• "This is the home that is decreed for you. This is the home decreed for the gods of your household. Do not give it up."

  Tiber
• "Fortune, that no man can resist, and Fate, that no man can escape, set me here in this place"

  Evander
• "Fate was calling you when you came to this place"

  Evander
• "It is you who are favoured of the Fates for your years and your descent"

  Evander
• "Now let the Laurentines ask for war! Now let them break their treaties!"

  Aeneas
• "On one side was Augustus Caesar, leading the men of Italy into battle alongside the Senate and the People of Rome, its gods of home and its great gods"


  Virgil