Motif
defeated enemy's supplication before the victor
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Aftermath and Spoils. 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 ELEVENTH / THE COUNCIL OF THE LATINS, AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CAMILLA / BOOK TWELFTH / THE SLAYING OF TURNUS; lines 8597-8651 confidence: high
Turnus raises humbled eyes and a suppliant hand, admits his defeat, asks Aeneas to pity Daunus as Anchises was a father to Aeneas, asks for himself or his body to be returned, and concedes Lavinia.
Turnus raises a suppliant hand, admits defeat, invokes pity for his father, and asks that he or his body be returned to his kin.
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