Motif
truth-telling messenger punished
truth_telling_messenger_punished
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Rejected Warner and Communal Destruction. 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 I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3677-3764 confidence: high
The raven ignores the warning and tells his master that he saw Coronis lying down with a youth of Haemonia.
The raven reports Coronis's infidelity truthfully, expects reward, and is instead forbidden by Apollo to perch among white birds.
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