Quote ID's 1
“Et tu, Brute?”
Julius Caesar
“Will you escape, in loot from one of mine? / It’s Pallas who’s now stabbing you, to offer / Your vicious blood in payment for your crime.”
Aeneas
“If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more….There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition.”
Brutus
"Nevertheless I long—I pine, all my days—
to travel home and see the dawn of my return."
Odysseus
Mrs. K's husband
Leo
“Do not be angry with me, Odysseus, since, beyond other men, / you have the most understanding. The gods granted us misery, / in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, / should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.”
Penelope
“O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers"
Marc Antony
“Yea, for these laws were not ordained of Zeus, And she who sits enthroned with gods below, Justice, enacted not these human laws. Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man, Could’st by a breath annul and override The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven.”
Antigone
“But Romans, don’t forget that world dominion / Is your great craft: peace, and then peaceful customs; / Sparing the conquered, striking down the haughty.”
Anchises
Mrs. K's younger sister
Laura
“Out of my grave let an avenger rise, / With fire and iron for Dardanian settlers— / Now—someday—when the power is there to strike. / Our shores will clash, weapons and seas collide. / My curse is war for Trojans and their children.”
Dido
“What evils are not wrought by Anarchy! She ruins States, and overthrows the home, She dissipates and routs the embattled host; While discipline preserves the ordered ranks...Die then, and love the dead if thou must; No woman shall be the master while I live.”
Creon
"Keep your joy in your heart, old dame; stop, do not raise up the cry. It is not piety to glory so over slain men."
Odysseus
“I deserve it—I won’t grovel for my life. / Use your good luck. But if an anguished parent / (As Anchises was, who gave you life) can move you, / Then pity Daunus—please—in his old age. / Send me, or else my corpse, back to my family. / You’ve triumphed: the Italians see me asking / For mercy, and Lavinia is your wife. / Lay down your hatred.”
Turnus
Mrs. K's favorite student
You, of course!
"There are two gates of Sleep: the one is said
to be of horn, through it an easy exit
is given to true Shades; the other is made
of polished ivory, perfect glittering,
but through that way the Spirits send false dreams
into the world above."
Anchises
“Once an enemy, never a friend, / not even after death… / Go down below and love, / if love you must—love the dead! While I’m alive, / no woman is going to lord it over me.”
“Not a word, Antigone, of those we love, / either sweet or bitter, has come to me since the moment / when we lost our two brothers, / on one day, by their hands dealing mutual death.”
Ismene
"Cowards die many times before their death."
Julius Caesar
Mrs. K's favorite Greek hero, because he's just so awesome
Diomedes
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me—
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all:
Ulysses (poem)
"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,*
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy."
Homer (Odyssey Invocation)
“But come, let us talk no more of this, for you and I both know / sharp practice, since you are far the best of all mortal men for counsel and stories, and I among all the divinities / am famous for with and sharpness; and yet you never recognized [me].”
Athena
“I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, / Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder / The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber / Did I the tired Caesar. And this man / Is now become a god”
Cassius
Mrs. K says that this will get you everywhere in life.
Shameless flattery