Motif
household impiety extended to civic tyranny
household_impiety_extended_to_civic_tyranny
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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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5132-5213 confidence: high
The tyrannical person lives amid revelries and harlotries; love is master of the house; desires require money; the son seeks or takes his parents' goods.
The tyrannical son harms father and mother, and the public tyrant later beats fatherland and motherland and imposes mercenaries.
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