Motif
Personified Grief fed by mourning
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A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Grief Imagery and Song. 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 ROGUE AND THE ORACLE / THE HORSE AND THE ASS / THE DOG CHASING A WOLF / GRIEF AND HIS DUE; lines 5224-5249 confidence: high
With nothing else left, Jupiter decides that tears shed for the dead should belong to Grief.
Grief receives tears for the dead as his due, and the fable says greater mourning leads Grief to bestow more of what he has, including fresh cause for tears.
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