Which author highlights the meaning of condere as 'to found' and 'to stab', connecting Turnus's death to founding the Roman race?

• A. Emma Buckley - Furor
• B. Emma Buckley - Death of Turnus
• C. Denis Feeney - Plot
• D. Harrison - Battle scenes

Answer: (B)

The main idea being tested is how the Latin verb condere can carry a dual sense—“to found” and, in a martial-epic moment, image the act of stabbing—and how that double reading links Turnus’s death to the founding of the Roman race. Emma Buckley’s Death of Turnus explicitly explores this, showing how condere can mean establishing a city or people and, in the scene of Turnus’s death, also embody the violent act that inaugurates Rome. This reading makes Turnus’s demise more than a personal defeat; it marks a foundational moment for the Roman lineage, embedded in the language itself. The other works focus on topics such as fury, plot mechanics, or battle description and do not foreground this particular lexical and thematic link between founding and killing.