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100
Aeneas’s wife at Troy, and the mother of Ascanius. She is lost and killed as her family attempts to flee the city, but tells Aeneas he will find a new wife at his new home.
Who is Creusa?
100
morior,i, mortuus
What is die?
100
"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentis."
Who is Laocoon? Translation: "I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts." (Book 2, line 49) Aeneas is telling the story of the fall of Troy. Here he repeats the most memorable of the words Laocoon spoke, as he tried in vain to persuade the Trojans to see the Trojan Horse as a trick of the Greeks and to destroy it.
100
"se in sinus reductos scindit"
What is alliteration?
100
The author of the Aeneid
Who is Virgil?
200
Latinus’s daughter and a symbol of Latium in general.
Who is Lavinia?
200
lex, legis
What is law?
200
"Varium et mutabile semper femina."
Who is Mercury? Translation: "Variable and fickle always woman." (Book 4, lines 569-570) Those who quote this line as though it were an ultimate truth might do well to remember the context: having lived contentedly with Dido as her husband in all but name for some time, Aeneas is leaving, under the orders of the gods, to carry out his destiny, and Dido is almost crazy with grief. A dream comes to him on shipboard, in which a figure that looks like Mercury, the messenger of Jupiter, warns him not to wait for dawn but to leave at once, or risk having his ships burned. These are the last words the messenger speaks.
200
"urbem repeto et cingor armis" Book 2 Line 749
What is hysteron proteron?
200
The caesar at the time this epic was written?
Who is Augustus?
300
A Latin leader who desires an end to the Trojan-Latin struggle. He questions the validity of Turnus’s motives at the council of the Latins, infuriating Turnus.
Who is Drancës?
300
ancora, ae
What is an anchor?
300
"Quis jam locus" inquit "Achate, quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris? En Priamus. Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi; sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt."
Who is Aeneas? Translation of above: He halted and, weeping, "What place now" he said, "Achates, what region on earth is not full of [the story of] our hardship? Behold Priam. Here too are the rewards of glory; there are tears for things, and what is mortal touches the mind." (Book 1, lines 459-462) Newly landed on the shores of northern Africa after seven years of wandering, Aeneas and Achates see pictures of the Trojan War on the wall of one of the new buildings in Carthage. Aeneas sees compassion in those pictures, and feels hope that those who care about the sorrows of that war will feel compassion for them and welcome them.
300
"Sit Latium, sint Albani per saecula reges, sit Romana potens itala virtute propago" Book 12 Lines 826-828
What is anaphora?
300
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400
Hector’s wife, who survives the siege of Troy. She meets Aeneas in his wanderings, tells him her story, and advises his course to Italy.
Who is Andromachë?
400
manes, ium
What is Hades?
400
"Consulis imperium hic primus saevasque secures accipiet, natosque pater nova bella moventis ad poena pulchra pro libertate vocabit. Infelix! Utcumque ferent ea facta minores, vincet amor patriae laudumque immensa cupido."
Who is Anchises? Translation: "This man first will accept the power of a consul and the stern battle-axes, and, a father, for the sake of glorious liberty, he will call his sons to punishment. Unhappy! Howsoever posterity may report these deeds: love of country will prevail and immense desire for fame." (Book 6, lines 822-823) Anchises continues to show Aeneas heroes of Rome to be, among them the first Brutus, who was one of the leaders in the rebellion that threw out the king who had been ruling Rome and turned the city into a republic. When Brutus's two sons were implicated in a rising designed to restore the monarchy, he had them executed, and watched as it was done. Here Virgil seems to question whether such a deed should be seen as heroic-or at least to suggest the tragedy of being drawn to such a deed, whatever the nature of the motive.
400
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400
This is the character that connects the emperor to Aeneas.
Who is Iulus?
500
The leader of the Volscians, a race of warrior maidens. She is perhaps the only strong mortal female character in the epic.
Who is Camilla?
500
tueor, eri, itus (tutus)
What is protect?
500
"Aude, hospes, contemnere opes, et te quoque dignum finge deo, rebusque veni non asper egenis."
Who is Evander? Translation: "Dare, guest, to despise riches, and make yourself also worthy [to be?] a god, and do not come as a harsh [judge] of [our] poverty." (Book 8, lines 364-365) Evander, king of the small Greek settlement built on the site where Rome will one day rise in all its grandeur, invites Aeneas to enter his simple home-and Virgil invites the Romans of his day to overcome their obsession with riches.
500
"Quod si tantus amor menti, si tanta cupido est" Book 6 Line 133
What are anaphora and asyndeton?
500
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