batch.motif.roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg-l8180-l8225
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record_id: batch.motif.roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg-l8180-l8225
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 8180-8225
start: '8180'
end: '8225'
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: As Turnus kills across the plains, Aeneas is carried wounded into camp.
Iapix, a healer once favored by Apollo, cannot remove the arrow or cure the wound
by ordinary art. Venus secretly brings dittamy from Cretan Ida, mixes it with
river-water, ambrosia, and balm, and Iapix unknowingly washes the wound with it.
Aeneas is healed, rearmed, and instructs Ascanius to learn valor and remember
the example of his father and Hector.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Turnus is described as dealing death over the plains while Aeneas is carried
into the camp wounded and bloodied.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Aeneas tries to have the broken dart removed from his wound so that he may
return to battle.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Iapix is identified as son of Iasus and as especially beloved of Phoebus/Apollo.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Apollo once offered Iapix arts and gifts including augury, the lyre, and swift
arrows, but Iapix chose knowledge of herbs and healing practice to prolong a dying
parent's fate.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Iapix repeatedly attempts to treat Aeneas with healing hands, herbs, pincers,
and efforts to draw out the arrow-head, but the attempts fail.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: As the attempted treatment fails, dust, cavalry, falling shafts, and cries
of battle approach the camp.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: Venus, moved by her son's pain, takes a stalk of dittamy from Cretan Ida and
carries it down in a dim halo.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Venus steeps the plant with secret healing in river-water and adds life-giving
ambrosial juice and scented balm.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: Iapix unknowingly washes the wound with the prepared water, after which the
pain departs, blood stops, the arrow falls out, and Aeneas' strength returns.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: Iapix tells the others to arm Aeneas quickly and states that the cure did
not come from human art or his own hand, but from a higher god.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: Aeneas puts on greaves, takes up his spear, receives shield and corslet, embraces
and kisses Ascanius through the helmet, and addresses him.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:12
text: Aeneas tells Ascanius to learn valor and toil from him, and later to remember
the pattern of his kindred, including father Aeneas and uncle Hector.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Aeneas
description: A wounded warrior brought into camp, healed, rearmed, and returned
toward battle; father of Ascanius/Iülus.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Turnus
description: The opposing warrior described as dealing death over the plains.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Mnestheus
description: One of those who set Aeneas down in camp.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Achates
description: Called faithful Achates; one of those who set Aeneas down in camp.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Ascanius / Iülus
description: Present beside Aeneas; later embraced and instructed by Aeneas as a
boy and son.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Iapix son of Iasus
description: Aged healer beloved of Phoebus, skilled in herbs and healing; attempts
to treat Aeneas and recognizes the cure as divine.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Phoebus / Apollo
description: God who once offered Iapix augury, lyre, and arrows; his herbs are
used by Iapix, though Apollo gives no counsel during the failed treatment.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Venus
description: Mother of Aeneas; secretly prepares a healing mixture with dittamy,
river-water, ambrosia, and balm.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Hector
description: Named by Aeneas as Ascanius' uncle and part of the remembered kindred
pattern.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: wounded warrior restored to battle
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Aeneas is wounded by a dart, healed, rearmed, and sent back to higher deeds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: human healer
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Iapix practices herbs and healing, attempts the cure, washes the wound, and
identifies the cure as beyond his art.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: divine mother and hidden helper
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Venus is moved by her son's pain and secretly provides the healing mixture.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: son and recipient of instruction
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Ascanius is embraced by Aeneas and told to learn valor, toil, and ancestral
example.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: companions carrying the wounded hero
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
basis: Mnestheus, Achates, and Ascanius are named beside Aeneas as he is set down
in camp.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:6
label: ancestral exemplar
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:9
basis: Aeneas tells Ascanius to remember father Aeneas and uncle Hector as the pattern
of kindred.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:7
label: enemy warrior causing battlefield crisis
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Turnus is killing across the plains while Aeneas is incapacitated and battle
nears the camp.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:8
label: divine patron of arts
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Apollo once offered Iapix augury, lyre, and swift arrows, and is associated
with potent herbs, though he gives no counsel in this moment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: broken dart or arrow-head
literal_form: The dart lodged in Aeneas' wound, with the reed broken and the steel
hidden in the wound.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: spear
literal_form: Aeneas leans on a long or vast spear and later brandishes his spear
after being healed.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- id: sym:3
label: healing herbs and dittamy
literal_form: Iapix uses potent herbs; Venus plucks dittamy with downy leaves and
bright-tressed flowers from Cretan Ida.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: river-water healing mixture
literal_form: River-water mixed with secret healing, ambrosial juice, and scented
balm, used to wash Aeneas' wound.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: Cretan Ida
literal_form: The mountain place from which Venus plucks the dittamy.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:6
label: armor of return to battle
literal_form: Golden greaves, shield, corslet, helmet, and armed embrace as Aeneas
prepares to fight again.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: ancestral pattern
literal_form: 'Aeneas'' spoken pattern of kindred: father Aeneas and uncle Hector
remembered by Ascanius.'
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Wounded Aeneas brought into camp
summary: While Turnus ravages the plains, Mnestheus, Achates, and Ascanius bring
bloodied Aeneas into camp, where he tries to have the dart removed so he can return
to battle.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Iapix's failed medical treatment
summary: Iapix, a healer favored by Apollo, attempts to remove the arrow-head and
treat the wound with herbs and tools, but battle draws nearer and the treatment
does not work.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Venus' hidden healing intervention
summary: Venus secretly prepares dittamy in river-water with ambrosia and balm;
Iapix unknowingly applies it, and Aeneas' pain, blood loss, lodged arrow, and
weakness are removed.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Recognition of divine aid and return to arms
summary: Iapix declares that no human art saved Aeneas, urges arms to be brought,
and Aeneas re-equips himself for battle.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Aeneas instructs Ascanius
summary: Before returning to battle, Aeneas embraces and kisses Ascanius through
the helmet and tells him to learn valor and toil from him and later remember his
father and Hector.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine mother secretly heals wounded son
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_parent_child
basis: Venus is explicitly Aeneas' mother, is moved by his pain, and secretly provides
the healing substance that restores him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents healing aid, not a broader birth or childhood narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: divine intervention surpassing human healing art
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Iapix's ordinary treatment fails; after Venus' hidden mixture is applied,
Iapix says the cure is not from human resource or his hand but from a higher god.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not name the higher god in Iapix's speech, though the
narrative has just shown Venus acting.
- id: motif:3
label: hero restored from wound and returned to battle
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Aeneas is incapacitated by an embedded dart, healed suddenly, rearmed, and
sent back toward battle and higher deeds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: This is a battlefield restoration rather than a death-and-resurrection
episode.
- id: motif:4
label: heroic values transmitted from father to son
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Aeneas instructs Ascanius to learn valor and toil from him and to remember
the pattern of his kindred, including Aeneas and Hector.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage emphasizes lineage and example, but does not explicitly mention
kingship or formal succession.
- id: motif:5
label: chosen healing knowledge over prestigious divine arts
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Iapix rejects or does not choose Apollo's augury, lyre, and arrows, instead
choosing knowledge of herbs and healing to prolong a dying parent's fate.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy link to wisdom is broad; the passage describes practical
healing knowledge rather than a wisdom quest.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage supports a functional comparison to a divine-parent aid pattern,
because a divine mother secretly intervenes to heal and restore her son.
claim_level: same_function
target: divine_parent_child motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is a passage-level functional comparison only; it does not establish
historical contact or a full shared narrative structure.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage supports a functional comparison to heroic restoration patterns
in which a wounded hero is supernaturally healed and returned to combat.
claim_level: same_function
target: wounded hero restored to battle pattern
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The passage does not depict death, descent, or resurrection, so comparison
should remain limited to restoration after wounding.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 8180-8188
quote_or_summary: Turnus is killing over the plains while Mnestheus, Achates, and
Ascanius set bloodied Aeneas down in camp; Aeneas leans on his spear and demands
the dart be cut out so he can return to battle.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary generated from provided passage.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 8188-8196
quote_or_summary: Iapix son of Iasus, beloved of Phoebus, had once been offered
Apollo's arts and gifts but chose herbs and healing practice to prolong a dying
parent's fate.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary generated from provided passage.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 8196-8207
quote_or_summary: Iapix works with healing hand, herbs, and pincers, but fails to
draw out the arrow-head; Apollo gives no counsel, and the battle's dust, cavalry,
shafts, and cries approach the camp.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary generated from provided passage.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 8207-8214
quote_or_summary: Venus, moved by her son's pain, plucks dittamy from Cretan Ida,
carries it in a dim halo, steeps it in river-water, and adds ambrosial juice and
scented balm.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary generated from provided passage.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 8214-8219
quote_or_summary: Iapix unknowingly washes Aeneas' wound with the prepared water;
pain leaves, blood is stanched, the arrow falls out without force, and strength
returns.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary generated from provided passage.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 8219-8223
quote_or_summary: Iapix calls for Aeneas to be armed and says the cure is not by
human resource, schooling, or his hand, but that a higher god is at work and sends
Aeneas back to higher deeds.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary generated from provided passage.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 8223-8225 and continuation within provided passage
quote_or_summary: Aeneas clasps on golden greaves, takes up spear, receives shield
and corslet, embraces Ascanius in arms, kisses him through the helmet, and tells
him to learn valor and toil and remember father Aeneas and uncle Hector.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary generated from provided passage.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal extraction is direct from the supplied passage. Motif labels are
cautious and passage-level; taxonomy references are limited to the provided list
and should be reviewed.
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 external sources or unsupported comparisons used.
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