batch.motif.roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg-l1061-l1147
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record_id: batch.motif.roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg-l1061-l1147
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
passage_locator:
label: BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF
THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1061-1147
start: '1061'
end: '1147'
translation: The Aeneid of Virgil
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The first-person Trojan narrator wakes to the sounds of Troy under attack
and sees flames spreading through the city. Panthus, priest of Phoebus, arrives
carrying sacred vessels, conquered gods, and his grandchild, and declares that
Troy has fallen, the gods have abandoned their shrines, Greeks are pouring from
the wooden horse, and Sinon is spreading fire. The narrator gathers companions,
urges a hopeless armed resistance, and moves through the burning city by night.
They first defeat Androgeus and his Greek troop after being mistaken for allies,
then put on Greek armor and continue fighting under disguise until some Greeks
flee toward the ships or back into the horse.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The narrator wakes, climbs onto the sloping roof, and listens to the growing
clash of arms near Anchises' house.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage compares the spreading disaster to fire in a corn-field and to
a mountain torrent sweeping crops and forest away.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Houses in Troy, including those of Deiphobus and Ucalegon, are described as
collapsing or burning, and the bay is lit by fire.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: Panthus runs to the narrator's gates with sacred vessels, conquered gods,
and his little grandchild.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Panthus states that Troy's decisive day has come and that Jupiter has favored
Argos.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Panthus reports that armed Greeks are emerging from the horse and that Sinon
is scattering fire in the city.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Rhipeus, Epytus, Hypanis, Dymas, and Coroebus join the narrator in the moonlight.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Coroebus had come to Troy because of his passion for Cassandra and had aided
Priam and the Phrygians.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: The narrator says that the gods who upheld Troy have departed from shrine
and altar and urges his companions to rush into hopeless battle.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: The band moves through enemy weapons in the night toward certain death while
the ancient city falls and corpses lie in streets, houses, and sacred courts.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: Androgeus mistakes the Trojan band for Greek allies and addresses them as
comrades before realizing they are enemies.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:12
text: Androgeus' sudden recoil is compared to a person who unknowingly steps on
a snake and withdraws when it rises angrily.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:13
text: The Trojans encircle and kill Androgeus' group, then take Greek shields, helmets,
swords, and armor as disguises.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:14
text: After putting on Greek equipment, the Trojans mingle with Greeks in the dark
and fight further battles; some Greeks flee to the ships, and some return to the
horse.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: first-person Trojan narrator, son of Anchises
description: The speaker wakes at Anchises' house, arms himself, gathers companions,
urges hopeless resistance, and leads a band through Troy by night.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Anchises
description: Named as the narrator's father; his house lies withdrawn and screened
by trees.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Panthus son of Othrys
description: Priest of Phoebus in the citadel who flees to the narrator with sacred
vessels, conquered gods, and his grandchild, then reports Troy's fall.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Phoebus
description: Deity of whom Panthus is priest.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Jupiter
description: Named by Panthus as the angry god who has cast the outcome to Argos.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Sinon
description: Greek-associated figure reported as scattering fire in victory.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: armed Grecians / Achaeans
description: Enemy forces pour from the horse, occupy gates and streets, fight in
Troy, and later are deceived by the Trojans' Greek armor.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Rhipeus
description: A warrior who joins the narrator and later puts on Greek equipment.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Epytus
description: A warrior described as mighty in arms who joins the narrator.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Hypanis
description: A companion who meets the narrator's group in the moonlight and joins
them.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Dymas
description: A companion who joins the narrator in the moonlight and later puts
on Greek equipment.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Coroebus son of Mygdon
description: A young man who came to Troy because of passion for Cassandra, aided
Priam and the Phrygians, urges use of Greek disguise, and dons Androgeus' gear.
role_refs:
- role:10
- role:11
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Cassandra
description: Named as the bride whose counsels Coroebus did not heed.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Priam
description: Named as the ruler to whom Coroebus brought aid.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:15
name_or_label: Androgeus
description: A Greek leader who mistakes the disguised or unidentified Trojan band
for allies, then recoils when he realizes the danger and is killed with his troop.
role_refs:
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:16
name_or_label: Trojan / Teucrian people
description: The people whose city is burning and falling; Panthus says they are
no longer a Trojan people.
role_refs:
- role:16
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:7
- id: fig:17
name_or_label: conquered gods of Troy
description: Sacred divine images or gods carried by Panthus while fleeing the citadel.
role_refs:
- role:17
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: first-person witness
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker directly reports waking, climbing to the roof, seeing and hearing
Troy's destruction, and narrating subsequent actions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: desperate war leader
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He arms himself, gathers companions, and urges them to rush into enemy weapons
with no hope of safety.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:3
label: father of narrator
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The narrator identifies Anchises as his father when describing the house.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: priestly messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Panthus is identified as priest of Phoebus and delivers news of Troy's irreversible
fall.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: guardian of sacred objects and child
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Panthus carries sacred vessels, conquered gods, and his grandchild while
fleeing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: patron deity of priest
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Panthus is called priest of Phoebus in the citadel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:7
label: divine arbiter favoring Argos
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Panthus says angry Jupiter has cast all into the scale of Argos.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:8
label: victorious fire-scatterer
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Panthus says Sinon scatters fire, insolent in victory.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:9
label: invading enemy force
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The Greeks pour from the horse, occupy gates and streets, and fight Trojans
in the city.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: role:10
label: last-stand companion
assigned_to:
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
basis: These men join the narrator's armed band during the fall of Troy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:11
label: lover and foreign ally
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Coroebus came to Troy out of passion for Cassandra and aided Priam and the
Phrygians.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:12
label: advocate of disguise
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Coroebus proposes exchanging shields and wearing Greek equipment, then dons
Androgeus' armor.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:13
label: unheeded bride-counselor
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: The passage says Coroebus did not listen to his bride's counsels.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:14
label: defended king
assigned_to:
- fig:14
basis: Coroebus brought aid to Priam and the Phrygians.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:15
label: mistaken enemy encounter
assigned_to:
- fig:15
basis: Androgeus addresses the Trojan band as allies before realizing he has fallen
among foes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:16
label: fallen city people
assigned_to:
- fig:16
basis: Panthus declares the Trojan people and Teucrian glory gone, while the city
falls with bodies in streets and houses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:7
- id: role:17
label: abandoned or conquered divine presences
assigned_to:
- fig:17
basis: Panthus carries conquered gods, and the narrator says Troy's gods have left
shrine and altar.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: city-consuming fire
literal_form: flames, burning houses, fire lighting the bay, Sinon scattering fire
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:16
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: sym:2
label: mountain torrent simile
literal_form: racing torrent of a mountain stream sweeping fields, crops, oxen's
labours, and forest
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
- mountain
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: sacred vessels and conquered gods
literal_form: sacred vessels and conquered gods carried from the citadel
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:17
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: wooden horse as source of armed men
literal_form: the horse standing high in the city and pouring forth armed men
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
- id: sym:5
label: abandoned shrine and altar
literal_form: shrines and altars left by the gods who upheld Troy
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:17
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: night and moonlight
literal_form: moonlight, black fog, and sheltering dark shadow around the fighters
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: snake startled underfoot
literal_form: a snake on the ground rising in anger and puffing its green throat
associated_figures:
- fig:15
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:8
label: enemy armor disguise
literal_form: Greek shields, plumed helmet, blazoned shield, Argive sword, and fresh
spoils worn by Trojans
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:15
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Alarm from Anchises' house
summary: The narrator wakes to the growing sounds of battle, climbs to the roof,
and sees the city burning as Troy's destruction becomes clear.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:16
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Panthus announces the fall of Troy
summary: Panthus arrives with sacred objects and his grandchild, then reports that
Troy is lost, Jupiter favors Argos, Greeks have emerged from the horse, and Sinon
is spreading fire.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:16
- fig:17
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Hopeless last stand gathers
summary: Several companions join the narrator, including Coroebus, and the narrator
urges them to fight in the burning city after the gods have abandoned shrine and
altar.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
- fig:14
- fig:17
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Night march through fallen Troy
summary: The armed band moves through the dark city toward certain death while Troy
falls and corpses fill streets, houses, and divine courts.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:16
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Androgeus' mistaken greeting and death
summary: Androgeus mistakes the Trojan band for allies, realizes the error, recoils
like one who has stepped on a snake, and is killed with his group.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:15
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:6
label: Trojans arm themselves in Greek spoils
summary: Coroebus proposes using captured Greek gear; the Trojans don enemy armor,
mingle with Greeks under disguise, fight further battles, and drive some Greeks
toward the ships or back into the horse.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:15
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: burning city as terminal destruction
taxonomy_refs:
- world_destroying_fire
basis: Troy's houses, citadel, and streets are repeatedly described as burning while
the city falls and its people are declared no more.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The passage concerns the destruction of a city rather than the literal
destruction of the cosmos; the taxonomy fit is based on large-scale annihilating
fire imagery.
- id: motif:2
label: divine abandonment and judgment of a city
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Panthus says Jupiter has given the outcome to Argos, and the narrator says
the gods who upheld Troy have left their shrines and altars.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage reports divine favor and abandonment through characters' speech
rather than showing a divine action directly.
- id: motif:3
label: hopeless heroic last stand
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The narrator urges companions to die in arms, saying the conquered have one
safety, to hope for none, and they march through enemy weapons toward certain
death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: No specific available taxonomy family exactly names this martial last-stand
pattern.
- id: motif:4
label: enemy disguise through captured armor
taxonomy_refs:
- trickster_boundary
basis: Coroebus proposes exchanging shields and wearing Greek suits, and the Trojans
mingle with Greeks under a protection not their own.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The action is tactical battlefield disguise rather than a fully developed
trickster episode; taxonomy fit is approximate.
- id: motif:5
label: treacherous horse releasing hidden warriors
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Panthus reports that the horse standing in the city pours forth armed men,
and later frightened Greeks climb back into its belly.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy reference directly names the wooden-horse stratagem.
- id: motif:6
label: serpent-startle danger simile
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
basis: Androgeus' recoil is compared to someone who unexpectedly treads on a snake
that rises angrily.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The serpent appears in a simile, not as an acting figure in the narrative.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 1061-1077
quote_or_summary: The narrator wakes near Anchises' tree-screened house, climbs
to the roof, hears battle, and compares the spreading ruin to field-fire and a
mountain torrent; Deiphobus' house crashes down, Ucalegon burns, and the bay is
lit by fire.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 1078-1083
quote_or_summary: Panthus son of Othrys, priest of Phoebus in the citadel, runs
to the narrator's gates with sacred vessels, conquered gods, and his little grandchild.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: 1084-1091
quote_or_summary: '"No more are we a Trojan people; Ilium and the great glory of
the Teucrians is no more. Angry Jupiter hath cast all into the scale of Argos."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 1091-1098
quote_or_summary: Panthus says the Greeks are masters of the burning town; the horse
pours out armed men, Sinon scatters fire, and Greeks hold gates and streets with
weapons ready for slaughter.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 1099-1110
quote_or_summary: Rhipeus, Epytus, Hypanis, Dymas, and Coroebus join the narrator;
Coroebus had come to Troy out of passion for Cassandra and to aid Priam and the
Phrygians, but did not heed his bride's counsels.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: 1110-1119
quote_or_summary: '"all the gods by whom this empire was upheld have gone forth,
abandoning shrine and altar"; the narrator urges: "Let us die, and rush on their
encircling weapons."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotations from supplied passage.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 1120-1131
quote_or_summary: The warriors, compared to hungry wolves in black fog, march through
enemy weapons toward certain death; night surrounds them, the ancient city falls,
and corpses lie in streets, houses, and sacred courts.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 1132-1140
quote_or_summary: Androgeus and a Greek troop meet the narrator's group, mistake
them for allies, ask why they linger, then realize they are among enemies and
recoil like someone who has stepped on an angry snake.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: 1140-1145
quote_or_summary: The Trojans encircle and cut down Androgeus' group; Coroebus proposes
exchanging shields and wearing Greek suits, then puts on Androgeus' helmet, shield,
and Argive sword, and others do likewise.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: 1145-1147
quote_or_summary: The Trojans advance mingled with the Greeks under another identity,
fight in the dark, send many Greeks to death, and some Greeks flee to ships or
back into the horse's belly.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif candidates using
exact available taxonomy are strongest for divine judgment and destructive fire;
disguise and serpent classifications are more approximate because they occur as
tactical action or simile.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
No comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not explicitly support comparison beyond the local narrative patterns extracted here.
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