Motif
refusal of military aid because of divine resentment and past disaster
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11221-11315 confidence: medium
The fable heading says Turnus asks Diomedes for help against Aeneas; Diomedes refuses from fear of Venus and recounts followers transformed by Venus into birds; an Apulian shepherd insults Nymphs and becomes a wild olive tree.
Diomedes refuses Turnus’s requested aid, the heading links this to fear of Venus’s resentment, and his speech recalls post-Trojan disasters suffered by the Greeks.
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