Which author notes that the verb condere can mean both 'to stab' and 'to found', linking Turnus's death to the founding of the Roman race?

• A. Harrison - Battle scenes
• B. Denis Feeney - Plot
• C. Emma Buckley - Death of Turnus
• D. G.E. Duckworth - Structure of the Aeneid

Answer: (C)

The question tests noticing a linguistic turn Virgil uses to fuse a moment of personal action with a national myth. The author in question highlights that the verb condere can carry both senses—to found or to establish, and, in a violent context, to strike down—so Turnus’s killing can be read as the founding act of the Roman race. Emma Buckley explicitly discusses this dual reading in her Death of Turnus piece, showing how the act of killing is yoked to Rome’s origin, turning a single death into the birth of a nation. The other scholars focus on different aspects (battle scenes, plot, or structure) and do not foreground this particular lexical and thematic link.