Motif
parasitic drones as civic plague
parasitic_drones_as_civic_plague
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Civic Order and the Body Politic. 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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The Republic BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII.; lines 20629-20813 confidence: high
“this is the drone in the house who is like the drone in the honeycomb, and that the one is the plague of the city as the other is of the hive.”
The passage compares spendthrifts, paupers, and criminals to drones in a house or hive and calls them plagues of the city or hive.
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