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In Book X, Turnus slays the son of Evander, the young prince Pallas. As he gloats over the killing, he takes as a spoil of war Pallas' sword belt and puts it on. Enraged, Aeneas seeks out the Rutulian King with full intent of killing him. Virgil marks the death of Pallas by mentioning the inevitable downfall of Turnus.
In battle, Pallas proves he is a warrior, killing many Rutulians. [2] Pallas is often compared to the Rutulian Lausus, son of Mezentius, who also dies young in battle. [3] Tragically, however, Pallas is eventually killed by Turnus, [4] who takes his sword-belt, which is decorated with the scene of the fifty slaughtered bridegrooms, as a spoil. [5]
According to Roman mythology, Amata / ə ˈ m eɪ t ə / (also called Palanto) was the wife of Latinus, king of the Latins, and the mother of their only child, Lavinia.In the Aeneid of Virgil, she commits suicide during the conflict between Aeneas and Turnus over which of them would marry Lavinia.
This describes a scene where Turnus and Aeneas are battling in Italy. Even though Aeneas is injured he returns to battle and "Aeneas inflicts the mortal wound on Turnus in the name of ‘Pallas’," where Aeneas takes vengeance for Turnus killing his friend Pallas. [30] Other examples of "mortal wound" are found in:
Lavinia, the only child of the king and "ripe for marriage", had been courted by many men who hoped to become the king of Latium. [2] Turnus, ruler of the Rutuli, was the most likely of the suitors, having the favor of Queen Amata. [3]
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A minor one, for instance, concerns Turnus and Enéas: in Virgil, Aeneas kills Turnus, at the end of the epic, because he recognizes the swordbelt that Turnus took from Pallas. In the Roman , it is a ring that Enéas recognizes, a motif that Michelle Freeman sees repeated in Marie de France 's "Le Fresne" .
Pallas received Paralia [3] or Diacria [4] as his domain, or else he shared the power over several demes with Aegeus. [5] Later, after the death of Aegeas, Pallas tried to take the throne from the rightful heir, his nephew, Theseus, but failed and was killed by him, [6] and so were his fifty children, the Pallantides. [7]