Motif
irreconcilable injury remembered in the offender's presence
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A motif of the Betrayal and Violated Trust family, within the sub-family Remembrance, Reconciliation, and Denunciation after Betrayal. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE BULL AND THE CALF / THE TREES AND THE AXE / THE ASTRONOMER / THE LABOURER AND THE SNAKE; lines 3819-3833 confidence: high
The father pretends to seek reconciliation; the snake replies, "I can never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor you mine because of your lost child."
The fable's explicit moral says injuries are never forgotten in the presence of those who caused them, and the narrative illustrates this through the lost child and lost tail.
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