Motif
burden of toil
burden_of_toil
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 FOX AND THE HEDGEHOG / THE CROW AND THE RAVEN / THE WITCH / THE OLD MAN AND DEATH; lines 4996-5007 confidence: medium
The Old Man cuts a bundle of faggots in a wood, starts carrying them home, has far to go, and becomes tired before reaching much more than halfway.
The Old Man is exhausted by carrying faggots and describes his life as toil.
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