Motif
Avenger arising from the dead person's dust
avenger_arising_from_the_dead_person_s_dust
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance 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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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING / BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END; lines 2636-2708 confidence: high
Dido commands the Tyrians to hate Aeneas' seed for all ages and says: "Arise out of our dust, O unnamed avenger, to pursue the Dardanian settlement with firebrand and steel."
Dido invokes an unnamed avenger to arise from her dust and pursue the Dardanian settlement with firebrand and steel.
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