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    Immolare in Virgilio
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2023) Gagliardi, Paola
    The verb immolare has only three occurrences in the entire Virgilian work, all in the Aeneid and all referring to Aeneas: in his slaughter after the death of Pallas in l. X he makes human sacrifices and when he kills Turnus at the end of the poem, he defines it as a sacrifice. The contrast between the sacred value of immolation and the horror of human sacrifice is surprising and deserves an analysis.