Motif
false alliance leading to destruction
false_alliance_leading_to_destruction
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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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE KINGDOM OF THE LION / THE ASS AND HIS DRIVER / THE LION AND THE HARE / THE WOLVES AND THE DOGS; lines 3763-3778 confidence: high
The Wolves ask the Dogs why they should remain enemies and say they are alike except for training.
The Wolves propose reconciliation and shared feasting, but after the Dogs follow them into the den, the Wolves kill them.
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