batch.motif.roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg-l8654-l8692
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record_id: batch.motif.roman-aeneid-mackail-gutenberg-l8654-l8692
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
passage_locator:
label: THE SLAYING OF TURNUS / THE END. / NOTES / BOOK FIRST; lines 8654-8692
start: '8654'
end: '8692'
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 passage is the close of the text followed by notes on Book First. The
notes discuss Latin word meanings, textual variants, manuscript authority, an
interpretation of swans rising and hovering, a Shakespeare parallel for a line
about an unstirred spirit, and a distinction between terms for ceiling decoration.
language: English with Latin quotations and lemmas
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage marks the end of the main text and begins a section of notes for
Book First.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A note on line 123 explains that the Latin word translated from inimica can
mean pernicious as well as hostile.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: A note on line 396 reports Henry's explanation that swans are rising and hovering
over the place where they had settled.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: A note on line 396 states that a parallelism between lines 396 and 400 is
inverted.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Several notes report preferred or variant readings based on manuscript authority
or internal grounds.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: obs:6
text: A note on line 722 glosses a phrase about a long-since-unstirred spirit and
quotes a line from Shakespeare's Sonnet XXX about renewed weeping over cancelled
woe.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:7
text: A note on line 726 distinguishes terms for ceiling features derived from words
meaning chain or network and sunk work.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: swans
description: Birds described in the note as rising and hovering over the place where
they had settled.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Henry
description: A commentator whose explanation of the swans in line 396 is reported
as probably correct.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Servius
description: A commentator cited in notes on lines 123, 636, and 726.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Professor Nettleship
description: A scholar cited for pointing out a distinction between two terms for
ceiling features.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: cited commentator or scholar
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: The passage cites these named persons as authorities or commentators on textual
interpretation and word usage.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:8
symbols: []
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Swans rising and hovering
summary: The note describes swans rising and hovering over the place where they
had settled, as an explanation of the action in Book First line 396.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
candidate_motifs: []
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 8654-8658
quote_or_summary: The passage ends the main text and opens the notes for Book First.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 8659-8661
quote_or_summary: The note on line 123 explains that inimica can mean pernicious
as well as hostile, citing Servius.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 8663-8671
quote_or_summary: The note on line 396 reports Henry's interpretation of swans rising
and hovering above their settled place and discusses an inverted parallelism with
line 400.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: '8673'
quote_or_summary: The note on line 427 records a reading supported by the balance
of manuscript authority.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: '8675'
quote_or_summary: The note on line 550 records Arvaque after two manuscripts and
armaque according to Conington.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 8677-8681
quote_or_summary: The note on line 636 discusses a preferred reading adopted on
internal grounds despite little manuscript authority.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 8683-8686
quote_or_summary: The note on line 722 gives the phrase 'The long-since-unstirred
spirit' and cites Shakespeare's Sonnet XXX as a parallel expression of renewed
grief.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 8688-8692
quote_or_summary: 'The note on line 726 cites Servius and Professor Nettleship on
distinct words for ceiling features: one from a term for chain or network and
another from a term for sunk work.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/aeneid-mackail.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: high
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage is primarily editorial notes rather than mythic narrative. No
candidate mythic motifs or supported comparative mythology claims were extracted.
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: |-
Available taxonomy references were not applied because the passage does not provide sufficient motif or symbol evidence.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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