Motif
Fire quenched by sudden tempest
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A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Rescue and Protection. 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 Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11563-11661 confidence: medium
The note says some writers reported that Turnus set Aeneas's ships on fire, a tempest extinguished the flames, and Ovid's story may follow Virgil's earlier account of the ships' delivery.
A tempest is said to arise and extinguish flames set on Aeneas's ships.
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