Motif
Founding attempt interrupted by ominous revelation
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A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Prophetic Revelations and Presentiments. 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 SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY / BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING; lines 1498-1588 confidence: high
Aeneas reaches Thrace, formerly friendly to Troy, and lays the first foundations of a city called Aeneadae.
Aeneas begins founding Aeneadae in Thrace, but the bleeding mound and Polydorus' voice lead the Trojans to abandon the settlement.
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