Motif
Vengeance debt for a slain child
vengeance_debt_for_a_slain_child
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Vengeance and Blood Feud. 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 TENTH / THE BATTLE ON THE BEACH / BOOK ELEVENTH / THE COUNCIL OF THE LATINS, AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CAMILLA; lines 7167-7255 confidence: medium
Evander comes to the bier, clasps Pallas with tears, laments the son's reckless first battle, says he has survived his child, does not blame the Teucrians or treaty, and asks that Turnus be treated as the debt claimed by father and son.
Evander instructs messengers to tell Aeneas that Turnus is the debt claimed by son and father.
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