key quotes

• “those whose fate it was to die beneath the high walls of troy [...] were many, many times more fortunate than i” - Aeneas when faced with the storm
• Aeneas raises his men’s morale “he showed them the face of hope and kept his misery deep in his heart.
• Jupiter about Rome - “There would come leaders of men who would hold power over every land and sea” “i have given them an empire that will know no end”
• “How fortunate they are” “their walls are already rising” → Aeneas says this about Carthage
• “no equal for his piety” - Aeneas’ men talking about him 
• “the treacherous house of carthage and the double-tongued people of Tyre”  → shows the roman (and Virgil’s) hatred of Carthage.
• Book 1 - “dido,doomed to be the victim of a plague that was yet to come”
• Book 2:

  • “Mindlessly i put on my armour” “Frenzy and anger drove me on and suddenly it seemed a noble thing to die in arms” - Aeneas speaks on his furor
• Aeneas was “afraid for both the man i carried and for the child at my side” - gained a sense of duty following Jupiter’s omen 
• Book 4:

  Aeneas & Dido's love/furor

  “The towers she was building ceased to rise” “ALL STOOD IDLE” “Forgetting about their kingdoms and becoming the slaves of lust”
• After mercury came Aeneas now “longed to be away and leave behind him this land he found so sweet”
• Mercury - “Women are unstable”
• Book 4 - “Let there be war between the nations and between their sons forever” - dido wishing perpetual war between Rome and Carthage
• Book 5 - "dutiful Aeneas"
• “Go Aeneas, great glory of Troy” - Deiphobus in book 6
• Book 7: Juno was “pierced by bitter resentment”
• book 7 turnus says “leave peace and war to men. War is the business of men”
• Book 8 - describing Aeneas' shield “the greatest outrage of all, his Egyptian wife”
• Book 8 “Aeneas lifted on his shoulder the fame and fate of his descendants”
• Book 9 Turnus to pandarus “You will soon be able to tell priam that here too you found an achilles”
• Book 10 - “as for Aenas, let him be tossed by storms in unknown waters” - Venus saying she only cares about saving ascanius
• Book 10 - “the Trojans and the false prophecies they have received” - Jupiter says the Trojans prophecies were lies, meaning the outcome of the battle is supposedly not guaranteed (even though it is)
• Book 10 -  Aeneas had “hatred in his heart” following the death of Pallas
• “Your task Roman, and do not forget it, will be to govern the peoples of the world in your empire. Pardon the defeated and war down the proud”
• Book 12 - Turnus claims Venus has been using "woman's tricks" to help Aeneas
• Book 12 (950) describing Turnus' death: "blazing with rage he plunged the steel full into his enemy’s breast.”
• Book 11 on destiny: “AENEAS was chosen by fate and brought there by the express of the will of heaven”
• Book 11 on Camilla's death:

  (832) “Her life left her with a groan and fled in anger down to the shades”