Motif
False accusation supported by planted treasure
false_accusation_supported_by_planted_treasure
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family False Accusation and Fraud Exposed. 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 VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.; lines 8455-8538 confidence: high
Ajax says Palamedes would have preferred to be left behind; Ulysses, remembering the discovery of his feigned madness, allegedly accused Palamedes of betraying the Greeks and showed gold he had hidden in the ground.
Ajax says Ulysses framed Palamedes by hiding gold in the ground and then showing it as proof of treachery.
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