Motif
Ambush in a wooded mountain pass
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK TENTH / THE BATTLE ON THE BEACH / BOOK ELEVENTH / THE COUNCIL OF THE LATINS, AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CAMILLA; lines 7463-7532 confidence: high
Camilla meets Turnus at the gateway with the Volscian array, offers to face Aeneas' cavalry and the Tyrrhene horse, and is praised and assigned command with Messapus, Latin squadrons, and Tiburtus' division; Turnus reports that Aeneas has sent cavalry ahead while he crosses a mountain ridge.
Turnus plans a stratagem along Aeneas' route and occupies a concealed glen with dark foliage, a narrow gorge, and elevated positions for attack.
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