Vergil arouses pity for Turnus when he describes "a groan [sweeping] over the Rutuli as they rose,/A groan heard resounding from on all sides from all/ the mountain range, and [echoing] through the forests" (XII 1261-1263) according to the spear of Aeneas "[passes] through/The middle of the thigh of Turnus" (XII 1258-1259). Turnus is clearly suffering and we are forced to feel compassion for his suffering. Nevertheless, Aeneas suggests that Turnus deserves to suffer and die as punishment for his previous actions when he states: "Pallas does this. offering/And criminal blood [of Turnus] demands its due” (XII 1293-1294) Despite this justification of Turnus’s fall, Virgil still provokes our empathy when he describes the flight of Turnus’ spirit “with a). groan for this indignity” (XII 1297) Ariosto only arouses palpable contempt for Rodomont when he describes his “angry spirit who, among the living, had been so proud and so insolent, [flee] in.” cursing the dismal shores of Acheron” (573). No sympathy is aroused by Rodomont's death, so it is easier to accept that the hero killed