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Often appears with: conquest, plunder, and captives · battle and tactics · courage and cowardice · military discipline and training · tyranny and despotism · truce negotiation · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · strategy and the aims of war · spear and shield combat · slaughter of fleeing troops · river-god intervention · prayer and worship
Usually: narrative (7) · detachment (3) · the test or trial (2) · indignation (2) · confronting death (1) · rivalry (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1) · irony (1)
“O Jupiter Feretrius, arbiter of the exploits of captains, and of the acts of commanders in war and battles, be thou witness that I, a general, have slain a general; I, a consul, have slain a king with my own hand, third of all the Romans; and that to thee I consecrate these first and most excellent of the spoils. Grant to us to dispatch the relics of the war, with the same course of fortune.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · precept
“and perceiving that the horse with his head high reared, covered his master's body, he turned his own a little, and holding his javelin by the middle, drove it against the tyrant with all his force, and tumbled him dead into the ditch.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · vivid
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…
At the battle near the Gauls, Marcellus prays to the sun and vows the best spoils to Jupiter Feretrius; he duels and kills the Gaesatae king Britomartus, leading to an unexpected Roman victory and Milan’s capture.
offered worship to the gods, to turn round; and in this moment of meeting the enemy, he is said to have vowed the best of the arms to Jupiter Feretrius. The king of the Gauls beholding Marcellus, and from the badges of his authority conjecturing him to be the general, advanced some way before his embattled army, and with a loud voice challenged him, and, brandishing his lance, fiercely ran in full career at him; exc…
When Machanidas of Lacedaemon raids the Mantineans, Philopoemen exploits the enemy’s failed pursuit, charges suddenly, defeats the tyrant in single combat, and kills him by driving him into a ditch.
beauty they wore with pleasure, becoming light and easy to them with constant use, they longed for nothing more than to try them with an enemy, and fight in earnest. The Achaeans at that time were at war with Machanidas, the tyrant of Lacedaemon, who, having a strong army watched all opportunities of becoming entire master of Peloponnesus. When intelligence came that he was fallen upon the Mantineans, Philopoemen f…
Etarcomol returns to issue single-combat terms, gets physically overpowered by Cú Chulainn, and is humiliated and taken to Fergus’ camp, while Fergus quarrels and Medb remarks on the treatment.
of Fergus. But for your protection, it would have been your entrails drawn (?) and your quarters scattered, that would have gone from me to the camp behind your chariot.' 'Threaten me not thus,' said Etarcomol. 'The wonderful agreement that he has bound, that is, the single combat, it is I who will first meet you of the men of Ireland to-morrow.' Then he goes away. He turned back from Methe and Cethe and said to hi…
In single combat by Scamander, Achilles kills Asteropaeus, then slaughters fleeing Paeonians along the riverbank until the river-god Scamander rebukes him and asks to stop killing in the water.
of the river Axius—of Axius that is the fairest of all rivers that run. He begot the famed warrior Pelegon, whose son men call me. Let us now fight, Achilles.” Thus did he defy him, and Achilles raised his spear of Pelian ash. Asteropaeus failed with both his spears, for he could use both hands alike; with the one spear he struck Achilles’ shield, but did not pierce it, for the layer of gold, gift …
David fights Philistines, protected by warriors like Abishai, Sibbechai, Nephanj, and Jonathan; giant champions are slain in single combats, after which peace follows and David organizes musical worship.
it, and ordered his soldiers to undermine the walls, and to overthrow them; and since the people in the city did not admit him, he was greatly displeased at them. 8. Now there was a woman of small account, and yet both wise and intelligent, who seeing her native city lying at the last extremity, ascended upon the wall, and, by means of the armed men, called for Joab; and when he came to her, she began to say, That "…
Polydeuces agrees to single combat with Amycus the Bebrycian, fight-by-fight describes the boxing match in which Polydeuces defeats Amycus, then the narrative pivots toward further contests for abducted brides.
*Amycus*. That shalt thou learn when thirst has parched thy shrivelled lips. *Polydeuces*. Will silver buy the boon, or with what price, prithee, may we gain thy leave? *Amycus*. Put up thy hands and stand in single combat, man to man. *Polydeuces*. A boxing-match, or is kicking fair, when we meet eye to eye? *Amycus*. Do thy best with thy fists and spare not thy skill! *Polydeuces*. And who is the man on w…