Motif
Fallen youth compared to a plucked flower
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A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Grief Imagery and Song. 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 TENTH / THE BATTLE ON THE BEACH / BOOK ELEVENTH / THE COUNCIL OF THE LATINS, AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CAMILLA; lines 7082-7165 confidence: high
Aeneas orders a thousand-man escort; others make a bier of arbutus rods and oak shoots; Pallas is compared to a plucked violet or hyacinth; Aeneas wraps him in one of Dido's purple and gold garments for the fire.
Pallas laid on the bier is compared to a violet or hyacinth plucked by a maiden, still graceful but no longer fed by Earth.
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