Motif
overeating leads to entrapment
overeating_leads_to_entrapment
A motif of the Pride, Hubris, and Downfall family, within the sub-family Desire, Pleasure, and Excess. 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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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE OLD LION / THE BOY BATHING / THE QUACK FROG / THE SWOLLEN FOX; lines 1997-2009 confidence: high
The fox is delighted, slips in through the narrow aperture, and greedily devours all the food.
The hungry fox eats all the hidden food and becomes too swollen to leave through the hole.
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