Motif
boast of noble ancestry where proof is impossible
boast_of_noble_ancestry_where_proof_is_impossible
A motif of the Royal Legitimacy and Sacred Kingship family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE STAG IN THE OX-STALL / THE MILKMAID AND HER PAIL / THE DOLPHINS, THE WHALES, AND THE SPRAT / THE FOX AND THE MONKEY; lines 1427-1441 confidence: high
"All the monuments that you see here were put up in honour of my forefathers, who in their day were eminent men."
The monkey claims distinguished ancestors using cemetery monuments as evidence, and the fox notes that the dead cannot expose the lie.
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