Motif
Invulnerable warrior resistant to weapons
invulnerable_warrior_resistant_to_weapons
A motif of the Conditional Invulnerability and Hidden Weakness family, within the sub-family Resistance to weapons, elemental ordeals, and hanging. 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. / BOOK THE TWELFTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7648-7732 confidence: high
The recent victory over Cygnus is discussed; his body was penetrable by no weapon, susceptible of no wounds, and blunted steel.
Cygnus is described as unpierceable by weapons, and Nestor compares him with Cæneus, who endured blows unharmed and later receives immunity from wounds and steel.
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