Motif
betrayal of duty punished
betrayal_of_duty_punished
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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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE KINGDOM OF THE LION / THE ASS AND HIS DRIVER / THE LION AND THE HARE / THE WOLVES AND THE DOGS; lines 3763-3778 confidence: high
The Wolves contrast their freedom with the Dogs' service to mankind, mentioning beating, heavy collars, guarding flocks and herds, and bones as food.
The Dogs are persuaded to hand over the flocks they guard, and the moral frames them as traitors who deserve their fate.
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