A | B |
Hector | brother of Aeneas |
regina sacerdos | Rhea Silvia |
geminam prolem | Romulus and Remus |
The device for - lupae fulvo nutricis tegmine | synchysis |
Another name for "walls sacred to Mars" | Rome |
Assaracus | early Trojan |
Phthia | Achilles' home |
Mycenae | Agamemnon's home |
Ilia | Rhea Silvia |
Mavors | aka Mars |
gentem togatam | the Romans |
Trojanus Caesar | aka Augustus |
Quirinus | deified Romulus |
temple of Janus | closed during times of peace |
horridus ore cruento | Furor |
genitum Maia | Mercury |
regina Carthaginum | Dido |
Poeni | Carthaginians |
Teucri | Trojans |
pius | Aeneas |
fidus | Achates |
"virginis os gerens" | Venus |
Harpalyce | Thracian huntress |
Threissa | Thracian |
Hebrus | slow river in Thrace |
soror Phoebi | Diana |
coniunx Didonis | Sychaeus |
pater Didonis | Belus |
frater Didonis | Pygmalion |
"dux femina facti" | a woman led the expedition |
Vesper | evening |
Penates | household gods |
Dardanus | Trojan son of Jupiter |
Phrygium aequor | part of Aegean Sea near Troy |
bis senos | =duodecim |
puppes | synecdoche |
Paphus | city sacred to Venus |
Saba | town in Arabia |
Agenor | King of Phoenicia |
victis Argis | "conquered Greeks" the Greeks will one day be conquered by the Romans (Trojan blood)(second word is synecdoche for Greeks;) |
device of circum dea fudit (compound verb is cut up) | tmesis |
device of miratur molem...miratur portas... (repetition of words) | anaphora |
device of : "O fortunati, quorum jam moenia surgunt!" | apostrophe |
caput acris equi | token for proper location of Carthage; symbolized strenth in war |
Sidonia | epithet for Dido, showing she is from Sidon (region where Tyre was) |
Atridae | patronymic for Agamemnon and Menelaus |
Priam | last king of Troy |
Achilles | dragged Hector's body around Troy |
Troilus | youth who was matched against Achilled unequally; fell off his chariot... |
Pergama | citadel of Troy |
Rhesus's horses | if they ate/drank Trojan food/water, then Troy would not fall |
Xanthus | Trojan river |
Diomedes | killed Rhesus |
Iliades | patronymic; Trojan women |
Oreades | mountain nymphs |
Latona | mother of Apollo/Diana |
Memnon | Ethiopian ally of the Trojans |
Penthesilea | Amazon leader; killed by Achilles; "bellatrix" |
Ilioneus, Sergestus, Cloanthus, Antheus | Trojans who were in the "other 12 ships" |