μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Retorts between husband and wife. (Cf. J1532.1.)

4 finer motifs beneath it
The good words. A man pledged to give his wife only good words hits her with a prayer bookThe flute makes more noise. A man overcomes his quarrelsome wife by playing the flute as long as she is scoldingWoman repulses ugly husband's advances. He placates her by telling her that he wants a handsome childHusband and wife separate and divide property. Man keeps the house, gives the wife the road
Filed beside it
Wife outwits her husbandOvercurious wife learns of the senate's deliberations. Husband (son) tells her that they have decided that each man may have many wives. Gullible wife believes it

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