Outline of the Aeneid - Homestead

The Similes of the AeneidBook 1Neptune like a speaker quieting a crowdCarthaginians like bees workingDido like the goddess DianaAeneas' beauty like artful ivory, marble, orsilver in goldBook 2Laocoon like a bull at the altarAeneas like a shepherd watching flames,bewildered and unknowingTrojans like hungry wolvesAndroges like a man who has stepped on asnakeShifting cycloneFlood over fieldsPyrrhus like a snakeGreeks like a foaming riverTrojan women like dovesIlium falls like an ash tree in the mountainsBook 3Cyclopes like tall treesBook 4Dido like a deerAeneas like ApolloMercury like a fishing birdTrojans like ants on the shoreAeneas like a storm-tossed oakBook 5Mnestheus' ship like a doveSergestes' ship like a snake run over by acartEntelles like a stormAcestes' arrow like a cometTroy Parade like the labyrinth in CreteBook 6Golden bough like tough mistletoeShades of the dead like trees or birdsSouls awaiting birth like beesBook 7Amata like a spinning topTurnus like a bubbling cauldronBattle like the seaLatins like a rock in the waterMen marching and singing are like swansMen marching are like waves of grainBook 8Troubled Aeneas like light on the waterVulcan's love for Venus like lightningPallas like LuciferAeneas' armor like a bright cloudBook 9Soldiers like a riverTurnus like a wolf at a sheepfoldNisus like a lionEuryalus like a flower in deathSurrounded soldier like a trapped animalTurnus like an eagle snatching rabbit orswanGround is thick with weapons like a stormPandarus and Bitias like oaks by a riverSoldiers falls like pilings thrown in the seaat BaiaeTurnus in the city like lion in a sheepfoldTurnus like a lion surroundedBook 10Murmur among the gods like wind in thewoodsAscanius like a gemAeneadae like cranesAeneas like a cometStalemated battle like contending windsPallas enflames others like fires set by ashepherdTurnus approaches Pallas like a lionapproaching a bullAeneas like hundred-handed AegaeonMezentius like a rockMezentius like a boarMezentius like a lion before a sheepfoldMezentius like OrionAeneas like a plowman; a farmer; a travellerwaiting for rain to stopBook 11The dead Pallas like a flowerLatinus' council murmurs like a rockmidstream