batch.motif.roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg-l8122-l8178
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record_id: batch.motif.roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg-l8122-l8178
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
passage_locator:
label: BOOK ELEVENTH / THE COUNCIL OF THE LATINS, AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CAMILLA
/ BOOK TWELFTH / THE SLAYING OF TURNUS; lines 8122-8178
start: '8122'
end: '8178'
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, unarmed and head bared, urges both sides to honor the truce and
leave the battle to him and Turnus. An arrow of unknown origin wounds him. Turnus
takes hope, mounts his chariot, and launches a destructive attack, killing many
opponents. His rampage is compared to Mavors in battle and to the North wind driving
the Aegean. Turnus kills Eumedes with a taunt, then kills further named warriors,
and finally beheads Phegeus after Phegeus attempts to stop his chariot.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Aeneas stands with head bared and unarmed hand stretched out while calling
for his men to stop fighting and honor the truce.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Aeneas states that the right of battle is his alone and that the rites make
Turnus his opponent.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: A whistling arrow wounds Aeneas; the passage says no one knows what hand,
god, chance, or deity caused it.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Turnus sees Aeneas retreat and the captains dismayed, gains sudden hope, calls
for horses and armor, and leaps into his chariot.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Turnus kills, crushes, and pursues many opponents from his chariot with spears
and trampling horses.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Turnus's advance is compared to Mavors stirring bloodshed with furious horses
and attended by Terror, Wraths, and Ambushes.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Turnus kills Eumedes after striking him with a javelin, stopping his horses,
descending from the chariot, planting a foot on his neck, and driving a sword
into his throat.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: Turnus taunts the fallen Eumedes, saying such is the reward for those who
dare his sword and thus found their city.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: Turnus's movement through battle is compared to the North wind roaring over
the Aegean and driving waves and clouds.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: Phegeus tries to resist Turnus's chariot by seizing the horses' mouths, is
dragged and wounded, then knocked down by the wheel and beheaded by Turnus.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Aeneas
description: A leader who tries to halt the renewed fighting, claims the single
combat with Turnus, and is wounded by an arrow.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Aeneas's men and captains
description: The men are running or fighting despite the truce, and the captains
are dismayed when Aeneas retreats wounded.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Turnus
description: A Rutulian leader or champion who takes hope after Aeneas is wounded,
mounts his chariot, and kills many foes.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Unknown source of the arrow
description: The passage leaves the origin of Aeneas's wound unknown, naming possible
causes as a hand, god, chance, or deity.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Mavors
description: The war-god used in a simile for Turnus's violent chariot advance.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Terror, Wraths, and Ambushes
description: Personified figures said to rush in Mavors's train in the simile.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Eumedes
description: A warrior, descendant of Dolon, pursued and killed by Turnus, who calls
him Trojan.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Dolon
description: Ancestor of Eumedes, remembered for daring to spy on the Grecian camp
and seeking Pelides' chariot as a reward.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Son of Tydeus
description: The figure who, in the recalled older episode, gave Dolon another reward
for his venture.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Named warriors killed by Turnus
description: Sthenelus, Thamyrus, Pholus, Glaucus, Lades, Asbutes, Chloreus, Sybaris,
Dares, Thersilochus, and Thymoetes are named among Turnus's victims.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Phegeus
description: A warrior who attempts to stop Turnus's chariot and is ultimately beheaded.
role_refs:
- role:9
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: truce-enforcing champion
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Aeneas urges restraint, says the truce and its laws are already established,
and claims the right of battle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: wounded leader
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Aeneas retreats from the ranks after being wounded by an arrow.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: disordered followers
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Aeneas calls to his men to stop running and fighting; his captains are later
dismayed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: battle champion
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Turnus opposes Aeneas and uses Aeneas's wounding as an opening for battle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: chariot warrior and slayer
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Turnus mounts a chariot, drives through the ranks, and kills multiple named
opponents.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:6
label: unknown wound-dealer
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The source of the arrow that wounds Aeneas is explicitly left unknown.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:7
label: divine comparator for war-fury
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Turnus's violence is described through a simile of Mavors kindling bloodshed
and driving furious horses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:8
label: personified attendants of war
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Terror, Wraths, and Ambushes rush around in Mavors's train in the simile.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:9
label: victim of Turnus
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:10
- fig:11
basis: These figures are named as killed or struck down by Turnus.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: ancestral exemplar
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Dolon is introduced as Eumedes' ancestor and recalled through an earlier
spying venture.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:11
label: older-episode avenger or reward-giver
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The son of Tydeus is said to have given Dolon another price for his venture.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:12
label: resister of the chariot assault
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Phegeus faces Turnus's chariot and seizes the horses before being killed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: unarmed hand and bared head
literal_form: Aeneas's bared head and stretched-out unarmed hand
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: whistling arrow
literal_form: An arrow that wings its way to Aeneas from an unknown source
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: chariot and horses
literal_form: Turnus's chariot, reins, coursers, and galloping hoofs
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: sym:4
label: blood, gore, and sand
literal_form: Bloody dew, mingled gore, and sand scattered under horses' hoofs
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: war-god battle train
literal_form: Mavors with shield, furious coursers, Terror, Wraths, and Ambushes
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:6
label: Aegean storm water
literal_form: The deep Aegean, waves driven shoreward, and racing clouds under the
North wind
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: foot on neck and sword at throat
literal_form: Turnus plants his foot on Eumedes' neck and dyes the blade in his
throat
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:8
label: beheading blow
literal_form: Turnus's sword smites off Phegeus's head between helmet and breastplate
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Aeneas tries to restore the truce
summary: Aeneas, visibly unarmed, calls on his men to restrain their wrath and leave
the ordained single combat to him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Aeneas is wounded by an unknown arrow
summary: A whistling arrow wounds Aeneas, but the passage does not identify whether
the source is human, divine, chance, or deity.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Turnus begins a chariot rampage
summary: Turnus sees Aeneas retreat, gains hope, mounts his chariot, and drives
violently through the battlefield, compared to Mavors in battle.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Turnus kills and taunts Eumedes
summary: Turnus pursues Eumedes, strikes him, descends from the chariot, kills him
with a sword at the throat, and taunts him about Trojan settlement in Hesperia.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Turnus drives on like the North wind and kills Phegeus
summary: Turnus's advance scatters formations like a storm over the Aegean; Phegeus
tries to stop the chariot but is wounded, knocked down, and beheaded.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:6
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: truce or treaty endangered by unknown missile
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
basis: The passage emphasizes that a truce and rites have been established, then
an arrow of unknown origin wounds Aeneas and disrupts the single-combat order.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is approximate; the passage describes a martial
truce with rites rather than a broader religious covenant.
- id: motif:2
label: warrior's destructive chariot aristeia
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Turnus mounts his chariot after Aeneas is wounded and kills or scatters many
opponents in rapid succession.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family directly names the epic aristeia pattern.
- id: motif:3
label: mortal warrior likened to war-god and storm
taxonomy_refs:
- chaos
basis: Turnus's rampage is framed through similes of Mavors with Terror, Wraths,
and Ambushes and of the North wind driving the Aegean.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The chaos taxonomy reference is broad; the passage gives specific epic
similes rather than an explicit cosmic-chaos motif.
- id: motif:4
label: taunt over fallen enemy tied to contested land and city-founding
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: After killing Eumedes, Turnus says he lies measuring the Hesperian fields
sought in war and that such is how they found their city.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage invokes settlement and territorial contest, but it does not
fully develop a royal-legitimacy claim in this excerpt.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage explicitly compares Turnus's battle fury to the war-god Mavors
and to a violent North-wind storm, giving the mortal warrior the same destructive
battlefield function as divine and natural forces within the similes.
claim_level: same_function
target: Mavors battle simile and Edonian North-wind/Aegean storm simile within the
passage
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is an intra-passage comparison made by epic simile, not evidence
by itself for historical contact or common inheritance.
- id: claim:2
claim: The recollection of Dolon, Pelides' chariot, the Grecian camp, and the son
of Tydeus links Eumedes' death scene to an older Trojan-war spying episode mentioned
inside the passage.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Dolon spying venture and fatal reward episode as recalled in the passage
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: Only a compressed allusion is present here; the full older episode
is not included in the supplied passage.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 8122-8131
quote_or_summary: Aeneas, head bared and unarmed hand extended, calls on his men
to restrain wrath, observe the truce, and leave the single combat with Turnus
to him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; concise summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 8131-8137
quote_or_summary: A whistling arrow wounds Aeneas; the passage states that no one
knows what hand, god, chance, or deity caused it, and no one claims the deed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; concise summary used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 8137-8146
quote_or_summary: Turnus sees Aeneas retreating and captains dismayed, takes sudden
hope, calls for horses and armor, mounts the chariot, and attacks fugitives and
ranks.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; concise summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 8146-8158
quote_or_summary: Turnus's attack is compared to Mavors kindling bloodshed, driving
furious coursers, and accompanied by Terror, Wraths, and Ambushes; Turnus tramples
slain foes and scatters bloody gore and sand.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; concise summary used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 8158-8170
quote_or_summary: Turnus kills Sthenelus, Thamyrus, Pholus, Glaucus, and Lades;
Eumedes is introduced as Dolon's descendant, with an allusion to Dolon's spying
venture, Pelides' chariot, the Grecian camp, and the son of Tydeus.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; concise summary used.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 8170-8181
quote_or_summary: Turnus strikes Eumedes with a javelin, stops the horses, descends,
places a foot on his neck, kills him at the throat with a sword, and taunts him
as a Trojan seeking Hesperian fields.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; concise summary used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 8181-8191
quote_or_summary: Turnus kills Asbutes, Chloreus, Sybaris, Dares, Thersilochus,
and Thymoetes; his advance is compared to the North wind roaring over the Aegean
and driving waves and clouds.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; concise summary used.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 8191-8204
quote_or_summary: Phegeus faces Turnus's chariot, seizes and twists the horses'
mouths, is dragged and wounded by the lance, advances behind his shield, is struck
down by the wheel, and is beheaded by Turnus.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; concise summary used.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The narrative actions and figures are explicit. Motif labels are cautious
because the supplied taxonomy has no exact entry for epic aristeia or chariot
rampage.
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'
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