Page Number and Citation : 1. Explanation and Analysis:. Book 3 Quotes. Search for your ancient mother. There your house, the line of Aeneas, will rule all parts of the world. Related Characters: Apollo speaker. Page Number and Citation : 3. Book 6 Quotes. Others, I have no doubt, will forge the bronze to breathe with suppler lines, draw from the block of marble features quick with life, plead their cases better, chart with their rods the stars that climb the sky and foretell the times they rise.
But you, Roman, remember, rule with all your power the peoples of the earth—these will be your arts: to put your stamp on the works and the ways of peace, to spare the defeated, break the proud in war.
Related Characters: Anchises speaker. Page Number and Citation : 6. Book 8 Quotes. He fills with wonder—he knows nothing of these events but takes delight in their likeness, lifting onto his shoulders no the fame and fates of all his children's children. Related Symbols: Aeneas's Shield. Page Number and Citation : 8. Book 12 Quotes. I shall not command Italians to bow to Trojans, nor do I seek the scepter for myself.
May both nations, undefeated, under equal laws, march together toward an eternal pact of peace. Related Characters: Aeneas speaker. Page Number and Citation : He encounters the Arcadians, who are enemies of the Rutulians and agree to help him. Evander , king of the Arcadians, sends his son Pallas to fight for Aeneas, and advises Aeneas to go get the Tuscans on his side as well. While Aeneas is traveling, two Trojans, Nisus and Euryalus , make a brave night raid through the Latin camp, but Euryalus is captured and they both die when Nisus tries to free him.
The next day, the Latins attack the Trojan fortress and Ascanius makes his first kill. Up in the heavens, Venus and Juno argue their sides to Jove , who decrees that the war's outcome should be left to fate. Aeneas returns to the battle with Tuscan troops to help him. Pallas fights Lausus , a youth his age on the Latin side and the son of the captain Mezentius. But Turnus intervenes and kills Pallas, taking his belt as a trophy. Aeneas, hearing of Pallas's death, goes on a killing spree, but Juno removes Turnus from the battle by tricking him to get on a boat.
Aeneas kills Lausus and Mezentius. Aeneas plans a huge funeral for Pallas, and Evander mourns his son. Both sides agree on a twelve-day truce. Among themselves the Latins discuss how they want to make peace, but Turnus stirs up the fighting again. Camilla , Queen of the Volscians, comes to help Turnus in his fight, but a Trojan ally named Arruns kills her. Turnus decides he must duel Aeneas directly in a fight to the death.
Amata and Latinus try to convince Turnus not to, but he knows he must. Juno sends down Juturna , Turnus's sister, to help him. Juturna sees that Turnus is weaker than Aeneas and stirs up war again. Aeneas is injured but Venus heals him.
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In early summer they set off, bringing the household gods. Aeneas directs the fleet to Thrace, a land friendly to Troy. Aeneas lands and prepares to sacrifice a steer. But when he uproots a plant to shade the altar, the stem bleeds. Frightened, he pulls up another plant, which also bleeds. He prays and pulls up a third plant, which groans and speaks, introducing itself as Polydorus.
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