Motif
besieged camp protected by obedience to absent leader
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A motif of the Royal Legitimacy and Sacred Kingship 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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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER / BOOK NINTH / THE SIEGE OF THE TROJAN CAMP; lines 5620-5714 confidence: high
Aeneas had ordered the Trojans not to fight in the open if trouble arose; they therefore bar the gates and wait armed behind walls and towers.
The Trojans resist shame and anger, bar the gates, and keep to the walls because Aeneas ordered them not to fight in the open during his absence.
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