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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · strategy and the aims of war · single combat · recovery of the dead · leadership under pressure · justice as a virtue · hellenic quarters · fate and resolve · equity, mercy, and pardon · challenge to aeneas · burning houses promise · battle and tactics
Usually: narrative (2) · detachment (2) · the test or trial (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…
Xenophon negotiates a truce with Carduchians for recovery of dead bodies and non-burning of houses, then orders the army to continue while the enemy attacks again; the Hellenes unite and find quarters in dwellings with abundant wine.
that they, from their higher ground, had been able to see what was going on in the rear, and had all made off in this fashion to attack the rearguard. So then Xenophon, with the youngest men, scaled up to the top, leaving orders to the rest to march on slowly, so as to allow the hindmost companies to unite with them; they were to advance by the road, and when they reached the level to ground arms (3). Meanwhile the …