Motif
anticipated funeral rites before perilous action
anticipated_funeral_rites_before_perilous_action
A motif of the Heroic Funeral Rites and Memorialization family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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Aeneidos LIBER VIII / PUBLI VERGILI MARONIS / AENEIDOS / LIBER IX; lines 6845-6947 confidence: high
Nisus says he does not doubt Euryalus, but if chance or a god turns against them he wants Euryalus to survive, perform burial or offerings, and spare his mother grief; Euryalus rejects these reasons.
Nisus asks that if disaster strikes, someone should bury him or perform offerings at a tomb, and he worries about causing grief to Euryalus's mother.
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