batch.motif.roman-ovid-metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley-gutenberg-l9545-l9638
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source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
passage_locator:
label: EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines
9545-9638
start: '9545'
end: '9638'
translation: The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Anius receives the Trojan guests at Delos, performs rites, and tells Anchises
how his son received augury from Apollo and his daughters received from Liber
the power to turn touched things into grain, wine, and olive produce. Agamemnon
seized the daughters to provision the Argive fleet; after flight and threat of
war, they prayed to Bacchus and were changed into snow-white doves. Apollo's oracle
then directs the Trojans to seek their ancient mother and kindred shores. Anius
and the Trojans exchange gifts, including a carved goblet depicting Thebes, mourning,
the self-sacrifice of Orion's daughters, and twin youths arising from their ashes.
The Trojans continue their sea journey past several Greek and Epirote places,
storms, and sites associated with transformations.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Anius receives the visitors into both his temple and his house and shows them
the city, temples, and two tree trunks associated with Latona's labor.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Frankincense, wine, and ox entrails are offered in a ritual before the guests
recline and feast.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Anchises asks Anius about the son and four daughters he remembers seeing before.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: 'Anius says he is now almost bereft of five children: a son absent in Andros
and daughters lost through misfortune.'
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The Delian god gave Anius's son augury, while Liber gave Anius's daughters
the power to transform touched things into corn, wine, and the berry of Minerva.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The son of Atreus learned of the daughters' gifts, seized them by force, and
commanded them to provision the Argive fleet.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The daughters escaped to Euboea and Andros, but threats of war caused their
brother to surrender them.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: When chains were being prepared for them, the daughters raised their free
arms to heaven and invoked Father Bacchus for aid.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: Anius reports that the daughters lost their human shape, assumed wings, and
became snow-white doves of Venus.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Apollo's oracle directs the Trojans to seek the ancient mother and kindred
shores.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: Anius gives departing gifts to Anchises, the grandson, and Aeneas; the Trojans
give Anius an incense-box, bowl, and gold-and-gem crown.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:16
- id: obs:12
text: The goblet given to Aeneas is described as ancient brass with gilded acanthus
and a carved scene of a seven-gated city, funeral rites, mourning women, mourning
nymphs, dried springs, a bare tree, and goats gnawing dry stones.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:15
- id: obs:13
text: 'On the goblet, the daughters of Orion are depicted in Thebes: one presenting
her breast and throat, the other thrusting a sword into herself, dying for her
people, receiving an honored funeral, and being burned in a conspicuous place.'
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: The goblet depicts twin youths called Coronæ arising from the virgin embers
and leading the funeral procession for their mothers' ashes.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: After leaving Crete, the Trojans seek Ausonian harbors, encounter a storm,
and pass a series of named places including the Strophades, Ithaca, Ambracia,
Dodona, and the Chaonian bays.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Anius
description: King and priest of Phoebus who hosts the visitors at Delos and narrates
the fate of his children.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Anchises
description: Pious Trojan elder who questions Anius about his remembered children
and receives a sceptre as a gift.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:11
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Phoebus / the Delian god / Apollo
description: God served by Anius as priest; grants augury to Anius's son and gives
an oracle to the Trojans.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:10
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Latona
description: Divine mother whose labor is associated with two tree trunks shown
at Delos.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Anius's son
description: Absent son of Anius, associated with Andros and granted augury by the
Delian god.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Anius's daughters
description: Four daughters of Anius given transformative food-and-drink powers
by Liber, seized for the Argive fleet, and changed into snow-white doves after
praying to Bacchus.
role_refs:
- role:8
- role:9
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Liber / Father Bacchus
description: God who gives Anius's daughters their powers and later responds to
their prayer by transforming them.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Son of Atreus
description: Destroyer of Troy who seizes Anius's daughters and orders them to feed
the Argive fleet.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Aeneas
description: Trojan traveler who receives a carved goblet from Anius.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Trojans / Teucrians
description: Traveling group hosted by Anius, directed by the oracle, exchanging
gifts, and continuing by sea toward Crete and Ausonian harbors.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:16
- ev:17
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Mylean Alcon
description: Craftsman who made the carved goblet sent from the Aonian shores.
role_refs:
- role:15
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Daughters of Orion
description: Two Theban maidens represented on the goblet as dying for their people
and receiving funerary honor.
role_refs:
- role:16
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Twin youths called Coronæ
description: Twin youths shown arising from the virgin embers and leading a funeral
procession for their mothers' ashes.
role_refs:
- role:17
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Nymphs
description: Figures on the goblet who appear to weep and mourn their dried springs.
role_refs:
- role:18
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
roles:
- id: role:1
label: host king-priest
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Anius is described as king and priest of Phoebus and receives the guests
into temple and house.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: bereft father and narrator
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Anius recounts the loss or absence of his five children.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: remembering elder guest
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Anchises remembers Anius's children and asks about them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: divine giver of powers
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:7
basis: Apollo grants augury to the son, and Liber grants transformative gifts to
the daughters.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: oracle giver
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The oracle of Phoebus instructs the Trojans where to seek.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:6
label: laboring divine mother
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Two trunks are shown as once grasped by Latona in labor.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:7
label: augur and absent ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Anius's son is absent in Andros and has augury from the Delian god.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: miraculously provision-bearing daughters
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Their touch transforms things into corn, wine, and olive produce.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: captives demanded for military supply
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The son of Atreus seizes them and commands them to feed the fleet.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:10
label: transformed fugitives
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: After fleeing and praying for aid, they assume wings and become doves.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: role:11
label: divine transformer-rescuer
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Bacchus answers the daughters' prayer by changing them into birds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: role:12
label: armed coercer
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: He uses force of arms to drag the daughters away for the Argive fleet.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:13
label: recipient of crafted vessel
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Aeneas receives a goblet made by Alcon and carved with a long device.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: role:14
label: wandering voyagers
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The Trojans receive oracular direction, exchange gifts, and continue through
several lands and seas.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:16
- ev:17
- id: role:15
label: artisan of image-bearing vessel
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Alcon is named as maker of the goblet and its carved device.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:16
label: self-sacrificing maidens
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: The goblet depicts them dying for their people and receiving funerary rites.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:17
label: youths born from ashes
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: The youths arise from virgin embers and lead the procession for their mothers'
ashes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: role:18
label: mourning nature-figures
assigned_to:
- fig:14
basis: The Nymphs on the goblet seem to weep and mourn their dried springs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: tree trunks of Latona
literal_form: Two trunks of trees once grasped by Latona in labor; footnote identifies
them as a palm and an olive tree.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: ritual flame and incense
literal_form: Frankincense given to flames, wine poured on the incense, and ox entrails
burned.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: transformable provisions
literal_form: Corn, wine stream, and berry of Minerva produced by the touch of Anius's
daughters.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: chains for captive arms
literal_form: Chains being prepared for the daughters' captive arms.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:5
label: snow-white doves
literal_form: Birds with wings assumed by Anius's daughters, identified as snow-white
doves of Venus.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:6
label: oracle of Phoebus
literal_form: Oracular instruction to seek the ancient mother and kindred shores.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:7
label: gifted carved goblet
literal_form: Goblet sent by Therses, made by Alcon, carved on ancient brass with
a long scene and gilded acanthus at the summit.
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:15
- id: sym:8
label: seven-gated city
literal_form: A carved city whose seven gates identify it as Thebes.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:9
label: funeral fires and virgin embers
literal_form: Funeral piles and conspicuous burning of the daughters of Orion, followed
by twin youths arising from embers.
associated_figures:
- fig:12
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: sym:10
label: dried springs and bare tree
literal_form: Nymphs mourn dried springs; a bared tree without foliage stands upright,
and goats gnaw dried stones.
associated_figures:
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs:
- water
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:11
label: sacrificial sword wound
literal_form: One daughter of Orion thrusts a sword into her wounds while dying
for her people.
associated_figures:
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:12
label: Dodona's vocal oaks
literal_form: The land of Dodona is described as vocal with its oaks.
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: sym:13
label: storm at sea
literal_form: A storm rages and tosses the voyagers to and fro.
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Reception and rites at Delos
summary: Anius hosts the visitors in temple and house, shows Delian sacred sites,
and conducts offerings with incense, wine, and burned ox entrails before the feast.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Anius recounts his children's fates
summary: Anchises asks about Anius's five children, and Anius describes the absent
son in Andros, divine gifts to the son and daughters, the seizure of the daughters
by the son of Atreus, their flight, surrender, prayer to Bacchus, and transformation
into doves.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:3
label: Oracle and gift exchange
summary: After the feast the visitors sleep, consult Apollo's oracle, receive Anius's
gifts, and return gifts to the priest.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:16
- id: scene:4
label: Images on Alcon's goblet
summary: The goblet bears a carved Theban scene of funerals, mourning women and
nymphs, drought imagery, the daughters of Orion dying for their people, and twin
youths arising from their mothers' ashes.
figure_refs:
- fig:9
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
- fig:14
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
- sym:9
- sym:10
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- id: scene:5
label: Trojans continue their sea journey
summary: Remembering Teucrian origins, the Trojans sail toward Crete, leave it because
they cannot endure its air, seek Ausonian harbors, meet storm and frightening
winged Aëllo, and pass named islands, shrines, oracle sites, and transformed places.
figure_refs:
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:12
- sym:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Human beings transformed into birds after divine appeal
taxonomy_refs:
- shapeshifter
basis: Anius's daughters invoke Bacchus while about to be chained; Anius says they
lose their shape, assume wings, and become snow-white doves.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents the means of transformation as unknown to Anius,
except for the result.
- id: motif:2
label: Divinely granted miraculous provisioning powers
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Liber gives the daughters a gift by which their touch transforms things into
corn, wine, and olive produce; the power is then exploited to feed a fleet.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy label is approximate because the passage stresses divine
gift and coerced use rather than a reciprocal exchange.
- id: motif:3
label: Sacrifice and ritual burning
taxonomy_refs:
- sacrifice
basis: The passage includes formal burned offerings at Delos and, on the goblet,
the daughters of Orion dying for their people and being burned with honors.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The Delian offerings and the Theban maiden deaths are separate episodes
within the passage.
- id: motif:4
label: Birth or renewal from ashes
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
- resurrection
basis: The goblet depicts twin youths arising from the virgin embers after the deaths
and burning of the daughters of Orion.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
confidence: high
cautions: The image is an embedded artwork description; the passage does not expand
on the mechanism beyond the youths arising from embers.
- id: motif:5
label: Sacred birth memorialized by trees
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_birth
basis: Anius shows two tree trunks once grasped by Latona in her labor, marking
a divine birth setting at Delos.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage mentions Latona's labor and sacred trees but does not narrate
the birth itself in this line range.
- id: motif:6
label: Oracular direction of wandering people
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
- mystical_quest
basis: Apollo's oracle directs the Trojans to seek the ancient mother and kindred
shores, after which they depart and continue their journey.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:17
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives the oracle and subsequent travel, but not a full quest
resolution within this range.
- id: motif:7
label: Reciprocal prestige gift exchange
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Anius presents gifts to Anchises, the grandson, and Aeneas, and the Trojans
return valuable gifts to the priest.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:16
confidence: medium
cautions: The exchange is royal and priestly hospitality rather than explicitly
divine exchange.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 9545-9551
quote_or_summary: Anius, as king and priest of Phoebus, receives the visitors into
temple and house, shows city and temples, and shows two tree trunks once grasped
by Latona in labor; the footnote identifies these as palm and olive.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 9551-9556
quote_or_summary: Frankincense is given to flames, wine poured on it, ox entrails
burned, and the guests feast on couches with wine and gifts of Ceres.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 9556-9560
quote_or_summary: Anchises asks whether Anius once had a son and four daughters
when Anchises first saw the walls.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 9560-9567
quote_or_summary: Anius replies that Anchises is not mistaken and that he was parent
of five children but is now almost bereft; his absent son is in Andros and holds
the kingdom for his father.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: 9568-9573
quote_or_summary: '"The Delian God granted him {the art of} augury; to my female
progeny Liber gave other gifts... at the touch of my daughters, all things were
transformed into corn, and the stream of wine, and the berry of Minerva."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 9573-9578
quote_or_summary: The son of Atreus, called destroyer of Troy, learns of the daughters'
powers, uses armed force to drag them from their father, and commands them to
feed the Argive fleet.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 9578-9585
quote_or_summary: 'The daughters escape where they can: two to Euboea and two to
their brother''s island Andros; military threat causes their brother, out of fear,
to surrender them.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: 9585-9588
quote_or_summary: '"And now chains were being provided for their captive arms. Lifting
up towards heaven their arms still free, they said, ''Father Bacchus, give us
thy aid!''"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: 9588-9593
quote_or_summary: '"they assumed wings, and were changed into birds of thy consort,
the snow-white doves."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: 9594-9598
quote_or_summary: After feasting and sleep, they go to the oracle of Phoebus, which
bids them seek the ancient mother and kindred shores.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: 9598-9604
quote_or_summary: 'The king gives departing gifts: a sceptre to Anchises, scarf
and quiver to the grandson, and a goblet to Aeneas; the goblet had been sent by
Therses and made by Mylean Alcon.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: 9605-9612
quote_or_summary: The goblet carving shows a seven-gated city, funeral and tombs,
fires and funeral piles, mourning matrons, weeping nymphs mourning dried springs,
a bared tree without foliage, and goats gnawing dried stones.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: 9612-9618
quote_or_summary: 'The goblet represents the daughters of Orion in Thebes: one presents
her breast and bared throat, the other thrusts a sword into her wounds, dies for
her people, is borne in honored funeral, and is burned conspicuously.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:14
type: quote
locator: 9618-9621
quote_or_summary: '"then from the virgin embers, lest the race should fail, twin
youths arising, whom Fame calls ''Coronæ,'' and for their mothers'' ashes leading
the {funeral} procession."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: 9622-9624
quote_or_summary: The figures shine on ancient brass, and the summit of the goblet
is rough with gilded acanthus.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: 9624-9628
quote_or_summary: The Trojans give the priest an incense-box for frankincense, a
bowl, and a crown brilliant with gold and gems.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: 9628-9638
quote_or_summary: The Trojans remember Teucrian origins, sail for Crete, leave its
hundred cities, seek Ausonian harbors, meet a storm and winged Aëllo at the Strophades,
and pass Ithaca, Ambracia, Dodona with vocal oaks, and Chaonian bays where sons
of the Molossian king escaped flames with wings.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized from supplied passage.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The main figures, actions, symbols, and motifs are explicit in the supplied
passage. Some motif taxonomy assignments, especially sacred_exchange and mystical_quest/departure,
are approximate and marked with cautions. No comparison claims were made because
the passage itself does not support an explicit cross-textual comparison.
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 text, footnotes, metadata, and available taxonomy references. Comparison claims are intentionally empty.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:roman-ovid-metamorphoses-books-8-15-riley-gutenberg__l9545-l9638
passage_sha256=b5d3a2bf85176374a63784de47091ecaf3b8ee3aa85e03990fdf72f1f9e269f5