Motif
ancestral and filial duty overriding erotic bond
ancestral_and_filial_duty_overriding_erotic_bond
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order 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 THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING / BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END; lines 2391-2467 confidence: high
Aeneas cites Apollo, Lycian oracles, Anchises's phantom, Ascanius's Hesperian kingdom, and the gods' interpreter sent from Jove; he concludes, "Not of my will do I follow Italy."
Aeneas says Anchises's phantom warns him and that remaining would cheat Ascanius of an Hesperian kingdom and destined fields.
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