Motif
Battle weighed in a balance
battle_weighed_in_a_balance
A motif of the Death Attributed to Fate or Destiny family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Iliad THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 24896-25075 confidence: medium
“Long time in even scale / The battle hung.”
A Milton quotation speaks of battle hanging in an even scale.
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