Motif
Pursuer shares the prey's fatal fate
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Mirrored Retribution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE WOLF AND THE CRANE / THE EAGLE, THE CAT, AND THE WILD SOW / THE WOLF AND THE SHEEP / THE TUNNY-FISH AND THE DOLPHIN; lines 3016-3038 confidence: high
A tunny-fish is chased by a dolphin, carried onto a sandbank by his flight, and the dolphin follows; both lie out of the water gasping.
The dolphin's pursuit carries both predator and prey onto a sandbank, where both are out of water and doomed.
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