Comparative mythology corpus

batch.motif.roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg-l3469-l3560

batch.motif.roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg-l3469-l3560

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record_id: batch.motif.roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg-l3469-l3560
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
passage_locator:
  label: BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER
    WORLD; lines 3469-3560
  start: '3469'
  end: '3560'
  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: Aeneas lands at Cumae, seeks Apollo’s shrine and the Sibyl’s cavern, views
    the temple doors showing Daedalus and Cretan myths, performs sacrifice at the
    Sibyl’s command, and receives an oracle from the god-possessed prophetess foretelling
    arrival in Latium but also war, bloodshed, Juno’s hostility, and an alien bride
    as a renewed source of Trojan suffering.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: Aeneas and his fleet arrive at the coast of Euboean Cumae, beach the ships,
    and the warriors disembark on the Hesperian shore.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: Some members of the company seek fire from flint, search the woods, and locate
    streams.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:3
  text: Aeneas seeks the fortress of Apollo and the cavern of the Sibyl, who is described
    as receiving prophetic inspiration from the Delian god.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:4
  text: The temple doors display episodes associated with Daedalus, including his
    flight, dedication to Phoebus, the death of Androgeus, the tribute of Athenian
    children, Pasiphaë, the Minotaur, the maze, and the guiding clue.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:5
  text: Daedalus twice attempts to portray Icarus’s fate in gold, but grief causes
    his hands to drop.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:6
  text: The priestess Deiphobe tells Aeneas that the time calls for sacrifice rather
    than looking at the temple images.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:7
  text: Aeneas and his companions sacrifice seven unbroken bullocks and seven two-year-old
    sheep at the priestess’s instruction.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:8
  text: The Sibyl’s cavern is described as a vast opening in the cliff, with one hundred
    passages and one hundred gates from which responses issue.
  category: setting
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:9
  text: At the threshold the Sibyl announces that it is time to inquire fate and that
    the god is present.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:10
  text: The Sibyl’s appearance, hair, breathing, stature, and voice change as the
    god approaches and inspires her.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:11
  text: The Teucrians shiver, and Aeneas offers a supplication to Phoebus and the
    prophetess.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: obs:12
  text: Aeneas asks for a resting place in Latium for the Teucrians, their wandering
    gods, and the deities of Troy.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: obs:13
  text: Aeneas promises temples, festal days, a sanctuary, and the preservation of
    the Sibyl’s oracles, asking that the verses not be entrusted to leaves scattered
    by winds.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: obs:14
  text: The prophetess resists Phoebus before the god subdues and shapes her inspired
    speech.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:15
  text: The hundred portals open by themselves, and the Sibyl delivers the oracle
    through the air.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:16
  text: The oracle says the Trojans will reach Lavinium but will face heavier dangers
    by land, wars, blood, a new Achilles, Juno’s continued hostility, and an alien
    bride connected with renewed suffering.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:17
  text: The oracle tells Aeneas not to yield to distress and says the path of rescue
    will first open from a Greek town.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: Aeneas
  description: Trojan leader who lands at Cumae, seeks Apollo’s shrine and the Sibyl,
    prays for a destined settlement in Latium, and receives the oracle.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  - role:2
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: Deiphobe, daughter of Glaucus / the Sibyl
  description: Priestess of Phoebus and Trivia, resident of the cavern, who commands
    sacrifice, becomes divinely inspired, and utters prophecy.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: Apollo / Phoebus / the Delian god
  description: God enthroned at the shrine, inspirer of the Sibyl, addressed by Aeneas,
    and giver of prophetic force.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
  - ev:10
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: Trivia
  description: Divine figure associated with the grove, golden-roofed shrine, priestess,
    and promised temple.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
  - ev:9
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: Daedalus
  description: Craftsman and fugitive from Minos’ realm who flew to the Chalcidian
    fastness, dedicated his wings to Phoebus, built the temple, and made the temple-door
    images.
  role_refs:
  - role:8
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: Icarus
  description: Son of Daedalus whose fate Daedalus tries and fails to portray because
    of grief.
  role_refs:
  - role:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: Pasiphaë
  description: Figure shown on the doors in connection with the bull, disguised stealth,
    and the birth of the Minotaur.
  role_refs:
  - role:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:8
  name_or_label: Minotaur
  description: The mixed, double-formed offspring represented on the temple doors
    as a record of shameful passion.
  role_refs:
  - role:12
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:9
  name_or_label: The princess
  description: Unnamed princess whose love Daedalus pities when he guides her lover
    through the palace maze with a clue.
  role_refs:
  - role:13
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:10
  name_or_label: The princess’s lover
  description: Unnamed lover whose blind footsteps are guided through the tangled
    palace by Daedalus’s clue.
  role_refs:
  - role:14
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:11
  name_or_label: The Teucrians / Dardanians
  description: Aeneas’s Trojan people, who accompany him, sacrifice, fear the Sibyl’s
    possession, and are prophesied to reach Lavinium after further trials.
  role_refs:
  - role:15
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:8
  - ev:11
- id: fig:12
  name_or_label: Juno
  description: Goddess whose presence is prophesied not to leave the Teucrians.
  role_refs:
  - role:16
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: fig:13
  name_or_label: Another Achilles
  description: A goddess-born figure prophesied as already found for Latium.
  role_refs:
  - role:17
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: Trojan leader
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: Aeneas commands the fleet and speaks for the Teucrians in prayer.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:8
- id: role:2
  label: supplicant
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: He pours out a prayer to Phoebus and the prophetess for settlement and protection.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
- id: role:3
  label: oracle recipient
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The Sibyl’s prophecy addresses Aeneas and his people’s future in Latium.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
- id: role:4
  label: priestess
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: She is called priestess of Phoebus and Trivia and commands the sacrifice.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: role:5
  label: inspired prophetess
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: Her body and voice change under divine influence, and she gives the oracle.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
- id: role:6
  label: prophetic deity
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  basis: Apollo inspires the Sibyl and is invoked by Aeneas as guide and patron of
    the oracle.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:8
  - ev:10
- id: role:7
  label: shrine-associated goddess
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: Trivia is associated with groves, the priestess, and Aeneas’s promised temple.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
  - ev:9
- id: role:8
  label: temple builder
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: Daedalus is said to have built the vast temple after landing.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:9
  label: craftsman of mythic images
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: The doors contain golden narrative images attributed to Daedalus’s work.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
- id: role:10
  label: lost son
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  basis: Daedalus’s grief prevents him from portraying Icarus’s fate.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: role:11
  label: mother of hybrid offspring
  assigned_to:
  - fig:7
  basis: The passage links Pasiphaë with the bull and the Minotaur’s mixed birth.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:12
  label: hybrid being
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  basis: The Minotaur is described as a mingled breed and double issue.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:13
  label: beloved helper
  assigned_to:
  - fig:9
  basis: Daedalus pities her love and provides aid for her lover through the maze.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:14
  label: maze-guided lover
  assigned_to:
  - fig:10
  basis: The lover’s blind footsteps are guided through the palace by the clue.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:15
  label: wandering people
  assigned_to:
  - fig:11
  basis: The Teucrians are described as seeking a resting place and as destined for
    further trials before Lavinium.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  - ev:11
- id: role:16
  label: divine adversary
  assigned_to:
  - fig:12
  basis: The oracle states that Juno’s presence will not leave the Teucrians.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: role:17
  label: future warrior adversary
  assigned_to:
  - fig:13
  basis: The oracle says another goddess-born Achilles is already found for Latium.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: Sibyl’s cavern
  literal_form: vast cavern in the Euboean cliff
  associated_figures:
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs:
  - cave
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
- id: sym:2
  label: hundred passages and gates
  literal_form: one hundred wide passages and one hundred gates of the cavern
  associated_figures:
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:10
- id: sym:3
  label: seeds of flame in flint
  literal_form: fire hidden in veins of flint
  associated_figures:
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs:
  - fire
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:4
  label: streams
  literal_form: streams found by the disembarked company
  associated_figures:
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:5
  label: golden temple doors
  literal_form: doors portraying Daedalus and Cretan episodes in gold
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  - fig:10
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
- id: sym:6
  label: labyrinth or maze
  literal_form: the famous dwelling’s laborious inextricable maze and tangled palace
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  - fig:10
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: sym:7
  label: clue
  literal_form: the guiding clue used to lead the lover’s blind footsteps through
    the maze
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  - fig:9
  - fig:10
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: sym:8
  label: sacrificial animals
  literal_form: seven unbroken bullocks and seven two-year-old sheep
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: sym:9
  label: oracle leaves
  literal_form: leaves on which verses might be written and scattered by rushing winds
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: sym:10
  label: Tiber with blood
  literal_form: Tiber foaming with streams of blood in the prophecy
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: sym:11
  label: winged oarage
  literal_form: Daedalus’s wings dedicated to Phoebus after flight
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Landing at Cumae
  summary: Aeneas’s fleet reaches Cumae, the ships are secured, and the Trojan band
    disembarks to gather fire, search woods, and find streams.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:3
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: scene:2
  label: Approach to Apollo’s shrine and the Sibyl’s cavern
  summary: Aeneas seeks Apollo’s high fortress and the hidden cavern of the Sibyl,
    whose prophetic power comes from the Delian god.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: scene:3
  label: Viewing Daedalus’s temple doors
  summary: The company approaches the temple and sees golden door images of Daedalus’s
    flight, Cretan tribute, Pasiphaë, the Minotaur, the maze, the guiding clue, and
    Daedalus’s grief for Icarus.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  - fig:10
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:5
  - sym:6
  - sym:7
  - sym:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
- id: scene:4
  label: Sacrifice before inquiry
  summary: The priestess Deiphobe interrupts the viewing of the images and instructs
    Aeneas to sacrifice seven bullocks and seven sheep; the Trojans obey and enter
    the shrine.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:4
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: scene:5
  label: Possession at the cavern threshold
  summary: At the cavern threshold, the Sibyl announces the god’s arrival; her appearance
    and voice change, the Trojans shiver, and Aeneas begins his prayer.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
- id: scene:6
  label: Aeneas’s vow and request
  summary: Aeneas asks Phoebus and the prophetess for a destined resting place in
    Latium and promises temples, rites, a sanctuary, and preservation of the spoken
    oracles.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  - fig:4
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
- id: scene:7
  label: The Sibyl’s oracle
  summary: The Sibyl rages under Apollo’s force, the portals open by themselves, and
    the oracle foretells arrival at Lavinium along with war, bloodshed, Juno’s hostility,
    a new Achilles, an alien bride, and eventual rescue from a Greek town.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  - fig:11
  - fig:12
  - fig:13
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:2
  - sym:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: Hero consults an inspired prophetess before a destined journey
  taxonomy_refs:
  - mystical_quest
  - wisdom
  basis: Aeneas seeks Apollo’s shrine and the Sibyl, prays for guidance, and receives
    a prophecy about the Trojans’ future route and dangers.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage presents consultation and prophecy; it does not yet narrate
    the underworld descent itself within this excerpt.
- id: motif:2
  label: Divine possession as prophetic speech
  taxonomy_refs:
  - wisdom
  basis: The Sibyl’s appearance and voice change when the god comes near; Apollo subdues
    and shapes her speech before she gives the oracle.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  confidence: high
  cautions: The interpretation is limited to possession-like inspiration explicitly
    described in the passage.
- id: motif:3
  label: Labyrinth, hybrid monster, and guiding clue
  taxonomy_refs:
  - labyrinth_initiation
  basis: The temple doors show the Minotaur, the inextricable maze, and Daedalus guiding
    a lover’s blind footsteps by a clue.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  confidence: high
  cautions: This is an embedded visual narrative on the temple doors, not an action
    directly undertaken by Aeneas in the passage.
- id: motif:4
  label: Vow of future cult in exchange for divine favor
  taxonomy_refs:
  - sacred_exchange
  basis: Aeneas requests a resting place and promises temples, festal days, a sanctuary,
    preservation of oracles, and appointed attendants.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
  confidence: high
  cautions: The exchange is expressed as prayer and vow; fulfillment lies outside
    this passage.
- id: motif:5
  label: Sacrifice before access to sacred knowledge
  taxonomy_refs:
  - sacrifice
  - wisdom
  basis: The Sibyl says the time calls for sacrifice; Aeneas and the Teucrians perform
    the prescribed offering before the prophetic response.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage sequences sacrifice before oracle, but does not state in abstract
    terms that the sacrifice causes access to prophecy.
- id: motif:6
  label: Foretold repetition of Trojan war patterns in a new land
  taxonomy_refs:
  - return
  basis: The oracle says there will be another Simois, Xanthus, Dorian camp, Achilles-like
    opponent, Juno’s hostility, and an alien bride again causing Trojan woe.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The taxonomy reference is approximate; the passage emphasizes recurrence
    of Trojan circumstances rather than literal return to Troy.
- id: motif:7
  label: Threshold cavern with many gates as oracular boundary
  taxonomy_refs:
  - cave
  basis: The Sibyl’s cliff cavern has a hundred passages and gates from which responses
    issue, and the prophetic encounter begins at the threshold.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
  confidence: high
  cautions: Available taxonomy includes the symbol 'cave' but not a specific oracular-threshold
    motif family.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
  claim: 'The embedded temple-door narrative explicitly aligns this passage with the
    Cretan labyrinth tradition: Daedalus, Pasiphaë, the Minotaur, the maze, and the
    guiding clue are all named or described.'
  claim_level: same_motif
  target: Cretan labyrinth and Minotaur tradition
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: The passage presents the tradition as an artwork within the Cumaean
    temple scene rather than retelling the full myth independently.
- id: claim:2
  claim: The oracle frames Aeneas’s Italian future as a recurrence of Trojan-war elements
    by naming analogues such as Simois, Xanthus, a Dorian camp, another Achilles,
    Juno’s hostility, and another foreign marriage source of woe.
  claim_level: same_function
  target: Trojan War recurrence pattern within the Aeneid’s own epic memory
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: medium
  limitations: The comparison is intratextual and typological; the passage does not
    claim historical identity between the earlier Trojan War and the future Italian
    conflict.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3469-3477
  quote_or_summary: Aeneas brings the fleet to Euboean Cumae; the ships line the beach,
    the warriors land, seek fire from flint, search woods, and find streams.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:2
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3477-3482
  quote_or_summary: Aeneas seeks Apollo’s high fortress and the lone depth of the
    Sibyl’s cavern, where the Delian god inspires the Sibyl and reveals the future.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:3
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3483-3510
  quote_or_summary: The company approaches Trivia’s groves and the golden-roofed shrine;
    the doors display Daedalus’s flight and dedication, Androgeus, the Athenian tribute,
    Pasiphaë, the Minotaur, the maze, and the clue guiding the lover through the palace.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:4
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3510-3514
  quote_or_summary: Daedalus attempts twice to portray Icarus’s fate in gold, but
    grief makes the father’s hands fall.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:5
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3514-3522
  quote_or_summary: Achates returns with Deiphobe, priestess of Phoebus and Trivia;
    she tells Aeneas that the time requires sacrifice of seven unbroken bullocks and
    seven two-year-old sheep, and the Trojans obey and enter the shrine.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:6
  type: quote
  locator: lines 3523-3527
  quote_or_summary: "“A vast cavern is scooped in the side of the Euboïc cliff,” with
    a hundred passages and a hundred gates from which the Sibyl’s responses sound."
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; short quotation.
- id: ev:7
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3527-3535
  quote_or_summary: At the threshold the Sibyl cries that it is time to inquire fate
    and that the god is present; her face, color, hair, breathing, apparent size,
    and voice change as the god draws near.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:8
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3535-3548
  quote_or_summary: The Sibyl urges Aeneas to vow and pray; the Teucrians shiver,
    and Aeneas prays to Phoebus for Troy’s fortune to follow them and for a resting
    place in Latium for the Teucrians and their gods.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:9
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3548-3556
  quote_or_summary: Aeneas promises marble temples, festival days, a sanctuary for
    the Sibyl’s oracles, chosen attendants, and asks that she speak the verses herself
    rather than entrust them to leaves scattered by winds.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:10
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3557-3563
  quote_or_summary: The prophetess rages in the cavern, resisting Phoebus until the
    god subdues and shapes her speech; the hundred portals open by themselves and
    the oracle comes through the air.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:11
  type: summary
  locator: lines 3564-3576
  quote_or_summary: The oracle says the Dardanians will reach Lavinium, but wars and
    blood await; it names another Simois, Xanthus, Dorian camp, a goddess-born Achilles
    for Latium, Juno’s ongoing presence, and another alien bride as a source of woe.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:12
  type: quote
  locator: lines 3576-3580
  quote_or_summary: "“Yield not thou to distresses,” and the path of rescue will first
    open from a Greek town."
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; short quotation.
confidence:
  extraction: high
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: medium
  notes: The passage is rich in named figures, symbols, and explicit embedded mythic
    material. Motif labels are conservative, but some taxonomy references are approximate
    because the available list does not include an exact oracular-possession or prophecy
    category.
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: |-
  Used only the supplied passage and metadata. Some line locators for the final oracle extend according to the supplied excerpt’s internal sequence even though the requested range label ends at 3560; reviewer should verify canonical markdown line alignment.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg__l3469-l3560
  passage_sha256=eb34445cbd2fa501c0d1bfaa68b41c5498b93c89b3986c3e451b3efba1ac4e52