Motif
army as destructive flood
army_as_destructive_flood
A motif of the Divine Warrior and Sacred Combat 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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Aeneidos LIBER I / PUBLI VERGILI MARONIS / AENEIDOS / LIBER II; lines 1386-1510 confidence: high
The assault is compared to a foaming river breaking its banks; the narrator says he saw Neoptolemus raging in slaughter, the two Atridae, Hecuba and many women, and Priam staining his consecrated altar fires with blood as the palace chambers fall and burn.
The advancing Greeks are compared to a foaming river breaking embankments and sweeping across fields with herds.
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