batch.motif.roman-ovid-metamorphoses-books-1-7-riley-gutenberg-l4788-l4910
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source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-1-7-riley.md
passage_locator:
label: EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRD. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 4788-4910
start: '4788'
end: '4910'
translation: The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A series of translator's footnotes explains the names, etymologies, and
textual witnesses for Actaeon's dogs. The notes state that Actaeon's pack was
said to include fifty dogs, that Ovid names thirty-six, and that related lists
were preserved or transmitted by Greek poets, Apollodorus, Hyginus, and Aeschylus.
Many dog names are explained through Greek words denoting color, speed, hunting,
barking, wilderness, animals, geography, or physical traits.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The notes state that Actaeon's pack was said to have consisted of fifty dogs.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The notes state that Ovid names thirty-six of Actaeon's dogs.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The notes compare Ovid's dog names with names preserved by Greek poets, Apollodorus,
Hyginus, and Aeschylus.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Many dog names are glossed as traits or actions, including tracing, eating,
seeing, hunting, running, barking, snatching, killing, and subduing.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Some dog names are glossed through colors or bodily traits, including black
foot, spot, strong, white, soot, black coat, thick hair, black hair, and wild
tooth.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The notes state that Crete, Arcadia, and Laconia produced especially valuable
hounds.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Several names are explained through places or landscape terms, including mountain,
wood, forest, a river, Laconia, and Dicte in Crete.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The notes connect some names with tempest, whirlwind, wolf, and possibly jackal-like
animals.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Actaeon
description: Named as the owner or associated figure of the pack of dogs.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Actaeon's pack of dogs
description: A pack said to include fifty dogs; Ovid is said to name thirty-six
of them in this passage's notes.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
roles:
- id: role:1
label: associated owner of the pack
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The pack is described as Actaeon's pack.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: named hunting hounds
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The footnotes explain numerous dog names, many derived from hunting, chasing,
barking, and other hound-related traits.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: catalogued animal collective
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The notes discuss the number of dogs and compare preserved lists of their
names in multiple ancient authors.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: catalogued hound pack
literal_form: Actaeon's named dogs as a collective list
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: mountain
literal_form: Greek mountain terms in the names Oribasus and Oresitrophus, and the
Cretan mountain Dicte
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: storm or whirlwind names
literal_form: Dog names glossed as Tempest, Storm, or related to a whirlwind
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:4
label: wolf-like animal name
literal_form: Dog names or notes connected with wolf and possibly jackal-like animals
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Translator's explanatory catalogue of Actaeon's dogs
summary: The footnotes identify Actaeon's dog pack, discuss ancient textual witnesses
for the list of names, and explain many names through Greek etymologies, traits,
animals, and places.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: catalogue of named hunting hounds
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage centers on a named pack associated with Actaeon, gives totals
for the pack and Ovid's named dogs, and explains the names through hunting and
animal attributes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: This is extracted from explanatory footnotes rather than from the narrative
action itself.
- id: motif:2
label: animal names encoding traits and functions
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The notes repeatedly gloss dog names as physical traits, colors, speeds,
sounds, hunting actions, predatory actions, and landscape associations.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The pattern is lexical and catalogic; the passage does not itself narrate
symbolic interpretation.
- id: motif:3
label: geographically marked hounds
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The notes identify valuable hound-producing regions and connect some dog
names with Laconia, Crete, Dicte, a river, mountains, woods, and forests.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The geographic associations are etymological or explanatory and not presented
as a developed narrative motif in this excerpt.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage explicitly compares Ovid's list of Actaeon's dogs with Hyginus'
lists, stating that Hyginus' first list contains many similar names in nearly
the same order while the second list differs.
claim_level: linguistic_similarity
target: Hyginus' two lists of Actaeon's dogs
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim is limited to the translator's note; the passage does not
provide the full Hyginus lists for direct verification.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage presents Ovid's dog-name catalogue as part of a broader ancient
textual tradition also involving Greek poets, Apollodorus, Hyginus, and Aeschylus.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Ancient textual catalogues of Actaeon's dogs
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage indicates shared lists and names but does not establish
precise dependence, chronology, or historical contact beyond the stated textual
witnesses.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 4788-4799, Footnote 27
quote_or_summary: '"The pack of Actæon is said to have consisted of fifty dogs."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-1-7-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short quotation used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 4788-4806, Footnote 27
quote_or_summary: The note says the dog names were preserved by several Greek poets,
copied by Apollodorus, partly lost or corrupt, listed twice by Hyginus, named
four times by Aeschylus, and named thirty-six times by Ovid.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-1-7-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 4788-4910, Footnotes 27-60
quote_or_summary: The footnotes gloss many dog names from Greek terms for actions
and traits such as tracing, eating, sight, ranging, killing, storm-like speed,
hunting, catching, barking, strength, whiteness, soot, snatching, blackness, hair,
greed, wild tooth, and subduing beasts.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-1-7-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 4803-4805, Footnote 27
quote_or_summary: '"Crete, Arcadia, and Laconia produced the most valuable hounds."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-1-7-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short quotation used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 4825-4910, Footnotes 31, 37, 38, 41, 48, 55, 60
quote_or_summary: 'The notes connect certain names with landscape or place terms:
Oribasus and Oresitrophus with mountain, Hylæus with wood, Nape with forest, Ladon
with a river, Lacon with Laconia, and Dicte with a Cretan mountain.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-1-7-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 4832-4880, Footnotes 33, 49, 50, 51
quote_or_summary: The notes gloss Lælaps as Tempest or whirlwind-like, Aëllo as
Storm, Thoüs as Swift with a note on a wolf-like or possibly jackal-like animal,
and Lycisca as Wolf.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/roman/project-gutenberg/metamorphoses-books-1-7-riley.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The passage is primarily translator's footnotes and lexical commentary, so
literal extraction is strong, while motif interpretation is limited and marked
cautiously.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
No narrative transformation or Actaeon death scene is extracted because this line range contains explanatory footnotes rather than the surrounding narrative.
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