Aeneid quotes

• "so heavy was the cost of founding the Roman race" (b.1)
• "doomed Dido" (b.1)
• "I impose no limits of time or place" (b.1)
• Simile comparing Neptune calming a storm to a man calming a mob (b.1)
• "the race that wears the toga" (b.1)
• Simile comparing Carthaginians to bees (b.1)
• "this was the cruellest thing I saw in all the sack of the city" (b.2)
• "children and frightened mothers" (b.2)
• "gnaw round the edges of your tables" (b.3)
• "O best of fathers" (b.3-Aeneas after Anchises death)
• "raged and raved around the city like a Bacchant" (b.4)
• "women are unstable creatures, always changing" (b.4)
• "It is not by my own will that I search for Italy" (b.4)
• Simile comparing Dido to a doe who has been unknowingly shot by an arrow (b.4)
• "These will be your arts - and to impose a settled pattern upon peace, to pardon the defeated and war down the proud" (b.6)
• "kindled in his mind a love for the glory that was to come" (b.6)
• "Augustus Caesar, son of a god, the man who will bring back the golden years to the fields of Latium" (b.6)
• "It resisted but he broke it off impatiently" (b.6)
• "We are caught in the gale of fate" (b.7 - King Latinus after battle w/ stag)
• "Mezentius, scorner of the gods" (b.7)
• Simile comparing Amata to a spinning top (b.7)
• "War is the business of men" (b.7 - Turnus to Allecto in disguise as an aged priestess)
• "He deserved a father whom it would have been more of a joy to obey" (b.7)
• "you must have the courage to despise wealth" (b.8)
• "fate was calling you when you came to this place" (b.8 - Evander to Aeneas)
• "Aeneas lifted onto his shoulders the fame and fate of his descendants" (b.8)
• "Nisus was like a lion driven mad with hunger" (b.9)
• "like poppies bowing their heads when the rain burdens them" (b.9)
• "young Pallas...asking him now about the stars" (b.10)
• "he lay like a flower cut by the thumbnail of a young girl" (b.11 - Pallas)
• "A father should not survive his son" (b.11 - Evander)
• "burning with all a woman's passion for spoil and plunder" (b.11)
• Simile comparing Lavinia to stained Indian ivory, or white lilies crowded by roses (b.12 - after hearing her mother say she would rather die than see Lavinia married to Aeneas)
• "Father Aeneas, the founder of the Roman race" (b.12)
• "From me, my son, you can learn courage and hard toil" (b.12)
• "Treachery had given him no choice" (b.12)
• "fatal baldric" (b.12)
• Simile comparing Turnus to a wolf pacing around a sheep's pen (b.9)
• “[Aeneas] then struck Lichas. His mother was already dead when Lichas was cut from her womb and dedicated to Phoebus Apollo, god of healing. Little good did it do the baby to escape the hazard of steel at birth” (b.10)
• Turnus kills “young Menoetes, who hated war - but that did not save him”