Motif
inner beast revealed in sleep
inner_beast_revealed_in_sleep
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Dream Visitors and Vision Revelations. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5050-5130 confidence: medium
A temperate man who has prepared himself with reason and self-knowledge before sleep has less abnormal visions; even good men have a wild-beast nature that appears in sleep.
Even good men are said to have an irregular wild-beast nature that peers out in sleep.
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