Motif
missed decisive victory through rage for slaughter
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A motif of the Pride, Hubris, and Downfall family, within the sub-family Rage in Conflict and Battle. 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 EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER / BOOK NINTH / THE SIEGE OF THE TROJAN CAMP; lines 6231-6312 confidence: high
Turnus kills Pandarus with a sword blow; the Trojans flee, and the narrator says Turnus might have ended the war by opening the gate, but rage drives him like fire against the enemy.
The narrator states that Turnus could have ended the war by opening the gate, but rage and thirst for slaughter drive him to keep killing.
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