Motif
Bereaved mother laments last child and ruined house
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A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Mourning Kin. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9235-9321 confidence: high
The Trojan matrons receive Polyxena, count the children of Priam whom they have had to mourn, and lament the losses of Priam's house and Hecuba's reduced state.
Hecuba mourns Polyxena as her daughter and last affliction, recalls the deaths of her children and the fall of Troy, and laments her survival into captivity.
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