Anchises

Anchises (Ἀγχίσης), was a legendary character from Greek mythology, who fell in mortal love with the goddess Aphrodite.

Publius Virgilio Marone, Aeneid:

 * Eternal, almighty | Lord, if a human prayer moves you, | look at us, and this will be a lot. | But if there is any merit in your presence | it is our pity, kind father, | give her help too; and with happy sign | this announcement ratifies and confirms. (book II)
 * In an act of welcome: O son, he said | sweetly crying, I see you too, | even though you came, he still has your pity | the inconveniences and hardships have been overcome | yes strange journey. Here it is given to me | to see, son, your longed-for appearance, | and hear you and talk to you. I point to this | he wasn't in doubt, and only thought about when, | counting the days. Oh after so much trouble, | after how many perils, and how many cripples | and on sea and land I see you again! (book VI)
 * Firstly the sky, the earth and the sea, | the air, the moon, the sun, what is hidden, | what appears and how much it is, moves, nourishes | and holds what is inside, either spirit or mind O soul that is of the universe; | which spread throughout the whole and the parts | of such a great mass, the impious of himself, and with him | it turns, mixes and unites. (book VI)
 * See there that bold young man | that his arm rests on that pure shaft? | Those to the light is destined first, | first that of Lavinia in Lazio you will have | posthumous son to you already of grave years, | who at last led by her out of the woods, | king will be of Alba, and of the royal Albans | author and father: and Sílvi named after him | Fian all ours, who descended from him | there they will have long reign. (book VI)
 * Brutus, prime consol, and those bundles of him | and those hatchets from which he, cruel father, | of the homeland good son, his children | for the beautiful libertate ancide of others. (book VI)
 * Public love wins, and great desire | of human praise in him the internal affection | of his own nature and blood.  (book VI) on Lucius Junius Brutus
 * But you, Romans my, rule the world | with empire and with weapons, and with your arts | let's be just in peace, undefeated in war; | forgive the subjects, welcome the humble, | defeat the proud. (book VI)
 * Miserable child! So death | you would not win, as undefeated fora | your valor, and how you, Marcelus, | no less than the other, heroic virtue | and more splendor and more luck you had! | Give me plenty so I can di lilies | and scatters a cloud of purple flowers, | which, if well against the already fixed destiny | I try in vain, at least with these gifts | honors the shadow of such a grandson of mine. (book VI)

Quotes about Anchises:

 * It's on the tip | Once we reached Lilybaeum, we immediately turned around its blind shoals, and the port at last | of the bad sight Drepano we grabbed. | Here, leave me! oppressed by so many worries, | exposed to many, my beloved father, | I lost my father. Here tired and sad, | father, you abandoned me: and you alone | you were in my many difficult fortunes | how much comfort and support he had. | Alas! who in vain from such great perils | safe. (Aeneas: Publius Virgil Maron, Aeneid)
 * And Trapani, where he passed away | the most ancient Anchises, he does not hide.  (Torquato Tasso)
 * The room where I write has in the vault the story of Anchises saved by Aeneas, the fire of Troy. And I look at those figures who filled my childhood with strange dreams. The hours chime in the brick bell tower. (Gabriele D'Annunzio)

Notes:

 * "Anchises". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary.
 * "Anchises" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., C.E.1992, Vol. 1, p. 377.
 * Hyginus, Fabulae 135
 * Roman, L., & Roman, M. (C.E.2010). Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology., p. 59, at Google Books
 * Rose, H. J. (January C.E.1924). "Anchises and Aphrodite". The Classical Quarterly. 18: 11–16. doi:10.1017/S0009838800006716. S2CID 171119955.
 * Homer; Lattimore, Richmond (C.E.2011). The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 303, 480. ISBN 9780226470498.
 * Virgil; Ahl, Frederick (C.E.2007). Aeneid. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199231959.
 * Unknown. Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.
 * Ovidius, Publius; Tarrant, R.J. (C.E.2004). Metamorphoses (in Latin). Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Sources:

 * Homeric Hymns. Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.
 * Homer. Iliad II, 819–21; V, 260–73; XX, 215–40.
 * Virgil. Aeneid.
 * Bibliotheca III, xii, 2, Epitome V, 21.
 * Ovid. Metamorphoses XIII, 623–42; XIV, 82–119.
 * Rose, H.J. (C.E.1924). Anchises and Aphrodite. The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 1. (January C.E.1924), pp. 11–16.

Related entries:

 * Aeneas – son