Turnus in a sentence

Although Turnus asks for mercy in their final encounter, when Aeneas sees that Turnus has taken Pallas' sword belt, Aeneas proclaims: You in your plunder, torn from one of mine, Shall I be robbed of you?

As Turnus is begging on his knees for his life, the epic ends with Aeneas killing him in rage when he sees that Turnus is wearing the belt of his friend Pallas as a trophy.

This started a series of armed conflicts with Turnus over the marriage of Lavinia. citation Before the arrival of Aeneas, Turnus was engaged to Lavinia, who then married Aeneas, starting the war.

Turnus and Aeneas dominate the battle on opposite wings, but when Aeneas makes a daring attack at the city of Latium (causing the queen of Latium to hang herself in despair), he forces Turnus into single combat once more.

At the meeting, Turnus Herdonius inveighed against the Tarquin's arrogance, and warned his countrymen against trusting the Roman king.

Even though Juno knows in the end that Aeneas will triumph over Turnus, she does all she can to delay and avoid this outcome.

For example, Juno comes down and acts as a phantom Aeneas to drive Turnus away from the real Aeneas and all of his rage from the death of Pallas.

In the ensuing battles, Turnus kills Pallas, who is supposed to be under Aeneas's protection.

Seeing the masses of warriors that Turnus has brought against him, Aeneas seeks help from the Tuscans, enemies of the Rutuli.

Tarquin called together the Latin leaders, and accused Turnus of plotting his assassination.

Tarquin then bribed Turnus' servant to store a large number of swords in his master's lodging.

The Aeneid ends in Book 12 with the taking of Latinus' city, the death of Amata, and Aeneas' defeat and killing of Turnus, whose pleas for mercy are spurned.

The final book ends with the image of Turnus' soul lamenting as it flees to the underworld.

The Latin leaders accompanied Tarquin to Turnus' lodging and, the swords then being discovered, the Latin's guilt was then speedily inferred.

This final act of violence shows how Turnus' violence—the act of killing Pallas—inevitably leads to more violence and his own death.

Turnus's strength deserts him as he tries to hurl a rock, and he is struck in the leg by Aeneas's spear.

Turnus was condemned to be thrown into a pool of water in the grove, with a wooden frame, or cratis, placed over his head, into which stones were thrown, drowning him.

Turnus was killed, and Virgil's account ends abruptly.