Book 9 Flashcards
(9 cards)
Initial fearsome simile associated with Turnus
‘Turnus in a fury prowled around the walls this way and that… like a wolf in the dead of night, lying in wait… by a pen full of sheep… growling at gaps in the fence, while the lambs keep up their bleating, safe beneath their mothers, beside himself with anger he storms and rages… worn out by the ravening hunger… many a day has passed since blood wet his throat.’
Nisus (older) Euryalus (younger) initial introduction
‘They were one in love, and side by side used to charge into battle’
Pity of war - Euryalus speaks of his mother before he goes - perhaps aware it’s likely he’ll die?
‘comfort her in her helplessness I beg you, and support her in her desolation’
Euryalus recognised by the enemy due to the prizes he took (helmet) - irony
‘Euryalus had forgotten about the helmet, and its glittering betrayed him. reflecting the rays of the moon in the dim shadows of the night.’
Euryalus’ death
‘He rolled on the ground in death, the blood flowed over his beautiful body, his neck grew limp and his head drooped on his shoulders, like a scarlet flower languishing and dying when its stem has been cut by the plough, or like poppies bowing their heads when the rain burdens them and their necks grow weary.’
Virgil considers their deaths
‘Fortune has favoured you both! If there is any power in my poetry the day will never come when time will erase you from the memory of man.’
Reaction of Euryalus’ mother
‘How could you leave me alone, so cruelly, you who were the last comfort of my old age.’
Iulus kills Remulus with an arrow and Apollo marks the occasion
Apollo: ‘You have become a man young Iulus and we salute you!… Let that be enough son of Aeneas.’
Turnus after breaking into the Trojan camp and killing many
‘Sweat poured off the whole body of Turnus like a river of pitch and he was given no breathing space. His lungs were heaving. He was shaking and sick with weariness. Then, and only then, he dived head first into the river in full armour.’
