Motif
Degenerate age marked by aged newborns
degenerate_age_marked_by_aged_newborns
A motif of the World Ages and Cosmic Decline 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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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST / ENDNOTES; lines 9056-9226 confidence: medium
the race will so degenerate that at the last even a new-born child will show the marks of old age
The note explains extreme degeneration by saying even newborn children will show signs of old age.
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