Motif
hopeless heroic last stand
hopeless_heroic_last_stand
A motif of the Divine Warrior and Sacred Combat family, within the sub-family Wounded, Fallen, and Avenged. 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 FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1061-1147 confidence: high
"all the gods by whom this empire was upheld have gone forth, abandoning shrine and altar"; the narrator urges: "Let us die, and rush on their encircling weapons."
The narrator urges companions to die in arms, saying the conquered have one safety, to hope for none, and they march through enemy weapons toward certain death.
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