Motif
death by pyre as omen to departing enemy
death_by_pyre_as_omen_to_departing_enemy
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Death and Doom Omens. 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 THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING / BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END; lines 2636-2708 confidence: high
Dido, with signs of agitation and approaching death, enters the inner courts, mounts the high funeral pyre, and unsheathes the sword of Dardania.
Dido mounts the pyre and says the Dardanian should see the fire from sea and carry her death as an omen.
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