Motif
beautiful youth likened to a cut flower in death
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A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
roman
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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER / BOOK NINTH / THE SIEGE OF THE TROJAN CAMP; lines 5936-6013 confidence: high
Euryalus dies with blood over his limbs; his neck droops like a cut flower or poppies bowed by rain.
Euryalus' death is described by comparison to a lustrous flower cut by a plough and poppies weighed down by rain.
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