Motif
Monstrous recurrence of civic evils
monstrous_recurrence_of_civic_evils
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 2141-2228 confidence: medium
"cut off at a blow the Hydra-like rogueries of mankind"
Human rogueries are described as Hydra-like and as not removable by a single blow, in the context of ineffective statesmen and legal remedies.
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