Motif
Speech as an ordered living body
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A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Wisdom Teaching and Moral Instruction. 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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Phaedrus PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 2910-3059 confidence: high
Socrates says every discourse should be "a living creature" with "a body of its own and a head and feet," and refers to an epitaph on the grave of Midas the Phrygian.
Socrates says every discourse should resemble a living creature with body, head, feet, beginning, middle, and end fitted to the whole.
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