Motif
distinguishing coerced dependents from culpable enemies
distinguishing_coerced_dependents_from_culpable_enemies
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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The Odyssey BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII; lines 9807-9908 confidence: medium
Leiodes catches Ulysses' knees, asks for mercy, says he never wronged the women, tried to stop the others, and was the suitors' sacrificing priest.
Ulysses kills Leiodes despite his plea, while Telemachus argues that Phemius is guiltless and that Medon should be spared.
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