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Often appears with: conquest, plunder, and captives · voyages and seafaring · travel hazards · trade, markets, and merchants · the human body and its parts · supply, logistics, and encampment · reduvius bugs · plundering farms · plague, famine, and mass death · pampas insect bites · moon goddess · medea calls phrontis
Usually: narrative (5) · detachment (2) · captivity (1) · confronting death (1) · reunion (1) · lament (1) · wonder (1)
“and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle:” or rather, I should say, like a strong breeze passing through the rigging of a ship.” Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle · vivid
“Lady, let Zeus of Olympus himself be witness to my oath, and Hera, queen of marriage, bride of Zeus, that I will set thee in my halls my own wedded wife, when we have reached the land of Hellas on our return.” Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica · precept
As daylight comes the Parthians resume arrow fire on the rear, but Romans hold formation and pass the river; they later reach the Araxes and rejoice at entering Armenia, suffering disease after plentiful eating, with many deaths from illness rather than battle.
own violence and robbery among themselves. To compose this tumult, and bring them again into some order after their distraction, he commanded the signal to be given for a halt. Day began to break, and quiet and regularity were just reappearing, when the Parthian arrows began to fly among the rear, and the light armed troops were ordered out to battle. And, being seconded by the heavy infantry, who covered one anothe…
As the smoke signals raids in progress, Germans break morale, flee across the river Maine, and the Romans plunder farms, cattle, and prisoners while burning houses in Roman style.
camp which he had thus occupied without hindrance, in a way that could hardly have been hoped for, required, nevertheless, to be fortified with mural engines and other adequate equipments. 13. Trusting to this truce, three of the most ferocious of those kings who had sent reinforcements to their countrymen when defeated at Strasburg, came to him, though still in some degree of alarm, and took the oaths according to …
Darwin describes traveling from Luxan across the Pampas and encountering a massive, fast-moving locust swarm, then recounts being attacked at night by benchuca “black bugs” that suck blood.
worn smooth and accumulated by the waves of the sea while the Pampas, covered by thistles, clover, and grass, have been formed by the ancient estuary mud of the Plata. After our two days' tedious journey, it was refreshing to see in the distance the rows of poplars and willows growing round the village and river of Luxan. Shortly before we arrived at this place, we observed to the south a ragged cloud of dark reddi…
The ferryman refuses Hagen’s claim and attacks him, but Hagen slays the boatman, breaks free in the boat, and reaches the far bank with Burgundy’s knights.
1555 With might across the river / his oar the boatman plied, But he who there was named / might nowhere be espied. His rage was all unbounded / when he did Hagen find, And loud his voice resounded / as thus he spake his angry mind: 1556 "Thou mayst forsooth be called / Amelrich by name: Whom I here did look for, / no whit art thou the same. By father and by mother / brother he was to me. Since me thou thus hast c…
The moon goddesses’ mock reflection prompts Medea to hurry; she calls on Phrontis and the brothers of Phrixus across the river, and Jason vows to make her his wife after reaching Hellas.
fear. And the Titanian goddess, the moon, rising from a far land, beheld her as she fled distraught, and fiercely exulted over her, and thus spake to her own heart: “Not I alone then stray to the Latinian cave, nor do I alone burn with love for fair Endymion; oft times with thoughts of love have I been driven away by thy crafty spells, in order that in the darkness of night thou mightest work thy sorcery at ease, ev…