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Often appears with: truce negotiation · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · strategy and the aims of war · single combat · leadership under pressure · justice as a virtue · challenge to aeneas
Usually: narrative (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1) · resignation (1)
As night approaches and armies intrench near the city, Turnus vows to force single combat with Aeneas, disputes truce conditions, and rejects counsel to avoid the duel.
THE ARGUMENT. Turnus challenges Aeneas to a single combat: articles are agreed on, but broken by the Rutuli, who wound Aeneas. He is miraculously cured by Venus, forces Turnus to a duel, and concludes the poem with his death. When Turnus saw the Latins leave the field, Their armies broken, and their courage quell’d, Himself become the mark of public spite, His honour question’d f…