Motif
dying curse creates hereditary enmity
dying_curse_creates_hereditary_enmity
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family, within the sub-family Lineage-Origin Curses. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
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 invokes the Sun, Juno, Hecate, avenging sisters, and gods of dying Elissa; she prays for Aeneas' war, exile, separation from Iülus, early unburied death, and commands Tyrian hatred of his seed, calling for an unnamed avenger and perpetual battle between descendants.
Dido invokes deities, curses Aeneas' future, orders hatred against his seed, and calls for battles to continue through descendants.
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