Motif
supplication for burial of the war dead
supplication_for_burial_of_the_war_dead
A motif of the Heroic Funeral Rites and Memorialization family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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Aeneidos LIBER X / PUBLI VERGILI MARONIS / AENEIDOS / LIBER XI; lines 8601-8728 confidence: high
Latin envoys arrive from the city, veiled with olive branches, requesting pardon and asking that battlefield corpses be returned to earth under mounds.
Envoys bearing olive branches ask the victorious leader to permit burial of bodies lying across the battlefield.
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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK TENTH / THE BATTLE ON THE BEACH / BOOK ELEVENTH / THE COUNCIL OF THE LATINS, AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CAMILLA; lines 7167-7255 confidence: high
Envoys from the Latin city arrive with wreathed olive boughs and ask Aeneas to return the dead lying on the plain so they may go to the grave.
Envoys carrying olive boughs ask that the dead be restored for burial, and Aeneas grants the request.
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