Motif
light entering an enclosed house
light_entering_an_enclosed_house
A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family, within the sub-family Revelatory Fire and Miraculous Illumination. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Aeneid of Virgil NOTES / BOOK FIRST / BOOK SECOND / BOOK THIRD; lines 8715-8746 confidence: low
The note on line 152 discusses qua se Plena per insertas fundebat Luna fenestras, rejects one explanation as violent, and reports Servius' two other interpretations, with clatratas adopted in translation.
The note discusses Luna pouring through windows and cites Lucretius' rays entering through dark parts of houses.
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