Book 9 Quotes

• "Is Aeneas to face all his doubts and dangers and never know uncertainty?"

  Jupiter
• "We shall not be hiding in the blind belly of a horse"

  Turnus
• "The Trojans were overcome and wept, the fair Iulus most of all, as this image of his love for his own father touched his heart"

  Virgil
• "Fortune has favoured you both! If there is any power in my poetry, the day will never come when time will erase you from the memory of man, while the house of Aeneas remains by the immovable rock of the Capitol and the Father of the Romans still keeps his empire."

  Virgil
• "You are Phrygian women, not Phrygian men!"


  Numanus
• "You (Ascanius) are born of the gods and will live to be the father of gods"

  Apollo
• "Have you no thought for your fatherland in its anguish, for your ancient gods or for great Aeneas"

  Mnestheus