Motif
Oracular restraint and required recantation
oracular_restraint_and_required_recantation
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Dream Interpretation, Divination, and Omen Responses. 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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Phaedrus Phaedrus / PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION.; lines 154-206 confidence: high
Phaedrus asks Socrates to remain until after noon heat; Socrates recognizes an oracular sign preventing departure until penance and resolves to sing a palinode for blaspheming love, like Stesichorus after reviling Helen.
An oracular sign forbids Socrates to depart until he does penance, and he responds with a palinode.
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