Motif
ominous mishap before sending a message
ominous_mishap_before_sending_a_message
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Bodily, Material, and Mishap Omens. 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 3413-3483 confidence: medium
The tablets are filled and sealed with a signet wet with tears; Byblis gives them to a trusted male domestic to carry to her brother. The tablets fall from her hands, which shocks her as an omen, but she sends them.
The tablets slip from Byblis’s hands and fall; she is shocked by the omen but sends them anyway.
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