Motif
thoughtless friends harm the helpless
thoughtless_friends_harm_the_helpless
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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greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE LAMB CHASED BY A WOLF / THE ARCHER AND THE LION / THE WOLF AND THE GOAT / THE SICK STAG; lines 3661-3671 confidence: high
Other beasts hear of the illness, visit to inquire after the stag’s health, and each nibbles the grass around him until none remains within reach.
The visiting beasts act as friends but consume the sick stag’s accessible food, contributing to his death.
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