Motif
vengeful refusal of ransom or supplication
vengeful_refusal_of_ransom_or_supplication
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK NINTH / THE SIEGE OF THE TROJAN CAMP / BOOK TENTH / THE BATTLE ON THE BEACH; lines 6754-6833 confidence: high
Magus clasps Aeneas' knees, pleads by Anchises and Iülus, offers buried wealth, and is killed after Aeneas says Turnus ended such war-bargaining when Pallas fell.
Magus and Liger plead for their lives; Aeneas rejects their pleas and kills them, connecting the refusal to Pallas' death in Magus' case and brotherly unity in Liger's case.
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