Motif
Grieving beloved wastes away and vanishes
grieving_beloved_wastes_away_and_vanishes
A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Death from Grief. 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. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11118-11219 confidence: high
Canens waits and searches for Picus, wanders six nights and days without sleep or food, rests on the Tiber's cold banks, and laments like a swan singing its funeral dirge before death.
Canens searches for Picus, laments on the Tiber's banks, pines away through grief, and disappears into light air.
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