Quos ego

Quos ego (Latin, literally 'Whom I') are the words, in Virgil's Aeneid (I, 135), uttered by Neptune in threat to the disobedient and rebellious winds. Virgil's phrase is an example of the figure of speech called aposiopesis.

Cultural references

The words are used in the Vulgate (Ezekiel 2:4) in a reference to naughty children. Gustave Flaubert likens a teacher's punishment of misbehaving students to "the Quos ego" in the opening scene of Madame Bovary.

Depictions in art of Neptune threatening the winds include the engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi and paintings by Peter Paul Rubens and Simone Cantarini.

References

Virgil's Aeneid (19 BC)

Characters

Deities	Alecto Crinisus Cupid Hecate Hymen Juno Jupiter Mars Mercury Saturn Tiberinus Venus

Humans	Acestes Achaemenides Achates Actor Aeneads Aeneas Aeolus Ajax the Lesser Alcathous Aletes Amata Anchises Androgeos Andromache Anna Perenna Antiphates Ascanius Automedon Aventinus Butes Caieta Camilla Capys Cassandra Catillus Clonius Clytius Creusa Cydon Cydonians Dardanus Dares Phrygius Deiphobus Diomedes Elymus Entellus Erulus Euryalus Evander of Pallene Halaesus Halys Helenus Hippocoon Iarbas Ilioneus Juturna Laocoön Latinus Lausus Lavinia Macar Messapus Metabus Mezentius Mimas Misenus Mnestheus Neoptolemus Nisus and Euryalus Ornytus Palinurus Pallas Pandarus Panthous Paris Picus Polites Priam Ripheus Rutuli Salius Sinon Theano Thymoetes Turnus Ucalegon Ufens

Phoenicians	Acerbas Belus II Dido Mattan I Pygmalion of Tyre

Films

The Avenger (1962)

Literature

Roman d'Enéas (1160 poem)
Dido, Queen of Carthage (c.1593 play)
Amelia (1751 novel)
The Dunciad (1729 novel)
Lavinia (2008 novel)

Opera

Didone (1641 Cavalli)
Achille et Polyxène (1687 Lully/Collasse)
Dido and Aeneas (1688 Purcell)
Didon (1693 Desmarets)
Didone abbandonata (1724 Metastasio)
Didone abbandonata (1724 Sarro)
Didone abbandonata (1724 Albinoni)
Didone abbandonata (1762 Sarti)
Didon (1783 Piccinni)
Dido, Queen of Carthage (1792 Storace)
Les Troyens (1858 Berlioz)

Manuscripts

Phrases

Art

Laocoön and His Sons (25 BC)
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (1619)
Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (1689)
Dido building Carthage (1815)

Music

Study

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