HKB
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Often appears with: siege and fortification · retreat and pursuit · miracles and divine intervention · enemy leader assassination · divine retribution · civil war and rebellion · city gate panic
Usually: narrative (1) · detachment (1) · wonder (1)
Opis kills Aruns with an arrow as the Volscians collapse and Turnus’s side retreats into the city, where panic leads to crushing at the gate and a renewed slaughter.
wretch, and be his name abhorr’d; But after ages shall thy praise record. Th’ inglorious coward soon shall press the plain: Thus vows thy queen, and thus the Fates ordain.” High o’er the field there stood a hilly mound, Sacred the place, and spread with oaks around, Where, in a marble tomb, Dercennus lay, A king that once in Latium bore the sway. The beauteous Opis thither bent her flight, …