WAR COMPARISON Flashcards
“Come then,
dear father, up on my back…your weight will be nothing to me”
“Lausus moaned bitterly
for the father whom he loved”
“The father could withdraw
protected by the shield of the son”
“Glorious Hector
took the helmet straight from his head and laid it gleaming bright on the ground”
“He kissed his dear son
and dangled him in his arms”
“You did not hold out your arms to me
or tell me some weighty last word which I could remember forever”
“If anyone spoke harshly to me in the house…
you would speak winning words to them and stop them”
“Hecuba and her daughters were sitting flocked round the altar
like doves driven down in a black storm”
“he fell and vomited his
life’s blood before their eyes”
“You are the only image left to me of
my own son Astyanax”
“Priam cried loud for murderous Hector
huddled at the feet of Achilles, and Achilles cried for his own father”
“You and I shall avenge the sufferings of Lausus; or else
if that road is barred and no force can open it, we shall fall together”
“Burning with mad passion
and terrible in his wrath”
“hesitating more and more as the words
of Turnus began to move him”
“Euryalus had forgotten about the helmet
and it’s glittering betrayed him”
