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This scene marks the only appearance of a “most righteous” character whom Dante is baffled to see in the eyebrow of the eagle of Jupiter in Paradiso. A retelling of this scene is the only surviving work by the author of a lipogrammatic Odyssey, Tryphiodorus. The action of this scene is compared to woodsmen felling a “proud, veteran ash on its mountain summit” after the mist that dulls the protagonist’s mortal sight is cleared, allowing him to see the gods participating in this scene. (-5[1])Rhipheus and Coroebus (*) die in this scene. In this scene, a man agrees to depart after a shooting star appears and his (-5[1])son’s (-5[1])hair is licked with divine fire. (-5[1])Sinon’s treachery allows this scene. (10[1])In Book II of an epic, the hero’s wife (-5[1])Creusa appears (10[1])as a ghost as he escapes this scene with his father (10[1])on (10[1])his back. (10[3])For 10 points, name this scene (10[1])in which Priam is killed in the Aeneid. (10[5])■END■

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