Motif
Animal fable of stronger over weaker
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. 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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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica INTRODUCTION / BIBLIOGRAPHY / HESIOD / HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS; lines 1704-1800 confidence: high
In a fable, a hawk carries a speckled-necked nightingale in his talons among the clouds and says the stronger may take, eat, or release the weaker.
The hawk's speech to the trapped nightingale states that the weaker cannot master the stronger and suffers pain and shame when resisting.
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