Motif
dismemberment as admonitory example
dismemberment_as_admonitory_example
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Mirrored Retribution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5656-5760 confidence: high
“The wind does not more speedily bear off, from a lofty tree, the leaves ... than were the limbs of the man, torn asunder by their accursed hands.”
The torn body is explicitly followed by the statement that the Ismenian matrons are admonished by such examples into the new worship.
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