Motif
Selective healer refusing to preserve intemperate lives
selective_healer_refusing_to_preserve_intemperate_lives
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 The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 1689-1772 confidence: high
Asclepius is said to avoid prolonged disease-care because citizens in a well-ordered state have no leisure to be ill; he and his sons cure honest diseases and wounds but refuse intemperate and worthless subjects.
Asclepius is described as curing honest wounds and diseases while declining to nurse chronic or intemperate conditions and refusing to preserve useless lives.
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