The great thirst — Mythoi

Motif

The great thirst.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee concerning drunkenness. · view the constellation · filed as J1322

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Filed under Repartee concerning drunkenness.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Will take care of the thirst. Doctors consult how to rid fever-stricken drunkard of his great thirst. "You take care of the fever; I shall take care of the thirst." Sleeping on salt. Priest blamed for large amount of wine he drinks tells people to consider his great thirst. He has slept on a sack of salt and has enough thirst for a week

Filed beside it

The unrepentant drunkard Should have brought him drink. Drunkard's wife takes him when he is drunk to a tomb and, masking as a ghost brings him food. "If you had known me better you would have brought me drink." Stung by the goblet. Doctor tells drunkard, "The goblet has stung you." "If I had known that I would have drunk out of a glass."

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