Motif
dream-like paralysis in battle
dream_like_paralysis_in_battle
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Sleep, Trance, Music, and Liminal States. 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 lifts and throws a huge ancient landmark stone, but his strength fails; the narration compares him to someone in sleep who tries to run or speak but cannot.
Turnus' bodily failure in combat is compared to sleep, where one tries to run or speak but cannot.
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