Motif
divine figure concealed in a mortal-looking captive
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A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation family, within the sub-family Disguises and Recognition. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5506-5562 confidence: high
Opheltes, Acoetes’ chief mate, says they are present and leads along the shore a boy he thinks a prize, found in lonely fields, beautiful like a girl and seeming heavy with wine and sleep.
The boy appears as a beautiful, sleepy human youth, but Acoetes perceives that a deity is in the body, and the passage later identifies him as Bacchus.
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