Verify Citation - 12. The Cosmology of War
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“Then came 15,000 so-called relatives of the king (an honorary title), well-dressed. Then, royal spearmen, and the king himself in a chariot decorated with gold and silver images of the gods, its connecting rod glittering with with precious stones. An eagle with spread wings (statue) was between two golden statues of gods. The king wore a purple tunic with a white belt, his cloak embroidered with gold, in a headdress with violet lace with white stripes. He had 200 of his attending magnates, and behind them came 10,000 spearmen, followed by another 30,000 foot soldiers.”
“Finally, wives and children of the king drew up the rear, with eunuchs, 360 royal concubines, and also the wives of relatives and retainers of the kings.”It was unclear if this was a quotation or the author’s words (we added the open-quotation mark before “Then came”); for now we left it all as a quotation. Where is the open-quotation mark to correspond to “retainers of the kings.” at the end of the last paragraph in this block quote? Did the quotation above just not stop?
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