Motif
divine manufacture of human social types with a moral ingredient
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A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Civic Order and the Body Politic. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE BLACKSMITH AND HIS DOG / THE STAG AT THE POOL / THE DOG AND THE SHADOW / MERCURY AND THE TRADESMEN; lines 2390-2411 confidence: medium
While Jupiter is creating man, he tells Mercury to make an infusion of lies and add a little to the ingredients used for tradesmen.
Jupiter and Mercury participate in making tradesmen by adding an infusion of lies to their ingredients.
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