Aeneid

• storm in book 1: “fierce and unforgetting anger of Juno” “death stared them in the face” “sheer mountain of water”
• Juno stirring women to burn the Trojan boats: “driven at last to madness they began to scream and snatch flames” “what you are burning is your own hopes for the future!”
• Juno stirring Allecto: “Allecto, bringer of grief” “make their young men long for weapons, demand them, seize them!”
• Allecto & Amarta: “the queen was seething with womanly anger” “driving her to frenzy and bringing down her whole house in ruin” “breathed viper’s breath into her and made her mad” “a great necklace of twisted gold around her neck” “winding the fire about her bones”
• Allecto & Turnus: “in my hands i carry war and death” “she threw a burning torch at the warrior and it lodged deep in his chest”
• • Allecto makes Ascanius’ arrow hit the stag: “the god was with him and kept his hand from erring”
• • Juno opens the gates of war: “the old king, father of his people, would not lay his hand upon them” “the queen of the gods came down from the sky and struck the stubborn doors”
• Juno taking Turnus out of the fight: “respite for a young man who must die” “an effigy in the form of Aeneas” “have you decreed that i must endure this punishment?”
• • Juno stirring Juturna: “the day of the Fates and the violence of his enemy are upon him” “you dare. I sanction” 
• • Juno accepting her defeat: “against my own wishes i have abandoned Turnus” “I, Juno, yield and quit” “do not command the latins to change their ancient name” “Troy has fallen. Let it lie” “she rejoiced and forced her mind to change” 
• Juno claims innocence: “neither man nor god compelled Aeneas to choose the ways of war” “where is Juno in all this?”
• Venus disguised as a spartan girl: “i do not believe you are hated by the gods” “why do you so often mock your own son” “why am i never allowed to take your hand in mine” “returning happily to her beloved home”
• • Venus hides Aeneas in a cloud: “great veil of cloud” “beauty to his hair” “sparkle of joy to his eyes” “a glow of youth shone about him” 
• Venus stops Aeneas killing Helen: “she caught my right hand and held me back” “do not disobey me”
• • Venus’ plan: “inflame the heart of the queen, driving her to madness” “winding the fire of passion round her bones” “breathe fire and poison into her” “unfortunate Dido doomed to be the victim of a plague” “a heart that had long been at peace and long unused to passion”     
• Venus and Juno’s affect of Dido: “one women has been overthrown by the arts of two gods!” “Let us allow her to become the slave of a Phrygian husband” “Juno as matron of honour”   
• Getting Aeneas’ armour made by Vulcan: “as a mother i ask you to makes arms for my son” “suddenly he caught fire”
• Venus in book 10, vouching for Ascanius’ safety: ‘allow me to take Ascanius safely out of the war”
• Zeus telling Aeneas to get on with his mission(sending Mercury): “it was not for this that she (Venus) twice rescued him from the swords of the Greeks” “he must sail. That is all there is to say” 
• Zeus putting out the flaming ships: “a black deluge of torrential rain” “soaked the charred timbers”
• Book 10, Zeus tells the gods off for intruding on the fate of Aeneas: “i had forbidden Italy to clash with the Trojans” ‘why is there discord against my express command?”
• Power of Jupiter over the war: “those who must prevail are those you wish to prevail”
• Final decision about Zeus’ influence (loom metaphor): “as each man has set up his loom, so he will endure the labour and the fortune of it” “Trojans and Rutulians i shall treat alike” “the Fates will find their way” 
• Jupiter instructing Juno to let go of her anger: “do not let great sorrow gnaw at your heart” “do not make me listen to grief and resentment” “the end has come” “i forbid you to go further”
• Statesman simile: “as when disorder arises among the people of a great city… a man who has some weight among them for his goodness… they fall silent, standing and listening with all their attention while his word command their passions and soothe their hearts”
• Rumour’s description: “a huge and horrible monster” “an eye that never sleeps, a mouth and a tongue that are never silent and an ear always pricked”
• Gods’ recognition of the suffering: “in the halls of Jupiter the gods pitied the futile anger of the two armies and grieved”
• • Aeneas sees Troy being attacked by gods: “I saw the dreadful vision of the gods in all their might, the enemies of Troy” 
• • Anchises and Aeneas meet in the underworld: “give me your right hand father” “his cheeks were washed with tears” “three times he tried to put his arms around his father’s neck and three times the phantom melted” 
• Aeneas leaving Troy image: “i bowed down to pick up my burden. Little Iulus twined his fingers in my right hand” “so afraid both for the man i carried and for the child at my side”
• Mezentius and Lausus: “he deserved a father of whom it would have been more of a joy to obey” “Lassus moaned bitterly for the father whom he loved” “till the father could withdraw protected by the shield of the son” “again and again he asked about Lausus and kept sending men to recall him”
• • Pallas and Evander: “if fortune has some horror in store, let me die now” “i want no grim news to come to me and wound my ears” “collapsed and was carried into his house” 
• Zeus comforts Hercules: “loving words to his son” “all life is brief and time once past can never be restored”
• Aeneas and Ascanius at the end: “took Ascanius in an armed embrace” “kissed him lightly through the helmet” “my hand will now defend you in war”
• swans portent about Aeneas’ men being fine: “twelve swans”
• Bees in the Latium citadel: “a cloud of bees” “a stranger arriving and an army coming from the same direction”
• • Laviania’s hair on fire: “the princess’s hair was blazing” “prophesied that her own fate and fame would be bright but that a great war would come upon the people” 
• Piglets & sow: “great sow and a litter of thirty piglets”
• eagle and swans portent: “the most powerful portent that ever confused and misled men of Italy” “tawny eagle of Jupiter” “seized a noble swan” “a cloud to mob their enemy… exhausted by their attacks… he gave way, dropping it… and taking flight”
• • Jupiter sends Dirae: “little bird which perches on tombs” “ill-omened song among the shades of the night”