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Headword:
Muthos
Adler number: mu,1389
Translated headword: myth
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A false account, simulating the truth.[1]
Fable [ainos] differs from myth[2] in that the fable is created not for children but for [adult] men, and not for entertainment alone but also to provide some advice; for its purpose is, by dissimulating, to give some advice and instructions -- just as Hesiod obviously did.[3]
Greek Original:Muthos: logos pseudês, eikonizôn tên alêtheian. diapherei de ainos muthou tôi ton ainon mê pros paidas, alla pros andras pepoiêsthai, kai mê pros psuchagôgian monon, alla kai parainesin echein tina: bouletai gar epikruptomenos parainein ti kai didaskein: hoper Hêsiodos phainetai pepoiêkôs.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in the
Synagoge and other lexica: see the references at
Photius mu578 Theodoridis.
[2] This supplementary gloss (from one of the
Letters of the emperor Julian) is repeated from
alphaiota 230.
[3] A reference to Hesiod's tale of the hawk and the nightingale: Hesiod,
Works and Days 202 (web address 1 below).
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Keywords: children; definition; ethics; mythology; poetry; rhetoric
Translated by: William Hutton on 24 May 1999@01:26:24.
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