Motif
aged father seeking mercy from son's killer
aged_father_seeking_mercy_from_son_s_killer
A motif of the Covenant and Sacred Bond family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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The Iliad ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXII. / ARGUMENT. / THE DEATH OF HECTOR.; lines 20781-20906 confidence: high
The father, grovelling in dust, asks to leave the walls alone and bow before the murderer of his son, hoping for pity and respect for age; he recalls that the killer also has a father and laments Hector and other sons sent to the tomb.
The father asks to leave the walls alone, bow before the murderer of his son, and appeal to the killer's age-related sympathy and memory of his own father.
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