Motif
posthumous haunting and vengeance oath
posthumous_haunting_and_vengeance_oath
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family, within the sub-family Vengeance and Retribution Oaths. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
roman
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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING / BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END; lines 2391-2467 confidence: high
Dido says the fire of madness drives her, mocks Aeneas' divine justifications, tells him to follow Italy, hopes he will meet vengeance on the rocks, and declares her ghost will haunt him after death and hear of his repayment in the underworld.
Dido says she will follow Aeneas in murky fires, her ghost will haunt him in every region, and she will hear of his repayment in the underworld.
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