Motif
place of past suffering revives painful memory
place_of_past_suffering_revives_painful_memory
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 HUNTER AND THE HORSEMAN / THE GOATHERD AND THE WILD GOATS / THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE SWALLOW / THE TRAVELLER AND FORTUNE; lines 5344-5365 confidence: high
The Nightingale replies that she once lived among men, suffered cruel wrongs, and will never again approach their dwellings.
The Nightingale refuses to return to human dwellings because of cruel wrongs suffered there, and the stated moral generalizes this as past suffering reviving painful memories.
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