Motif
Wealth personified as a morally suspect companion
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Pride, Greed, and Hubris. 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 FOX WHO SERVED A LION / THE QUACK DOCTOR / THE LION, THE WOLF, AND THE FOX / HERCULES AND PLUTUS; lines 4924-4936 confidence: high
Plutus is called “the god of wealth”; Hercules looks down, turns away, and pretends not to see him.
Plutus is personified as the god of wealth, and Hercules says he is commonly found with scoundrels.
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