Deceptive invitation to feast — Mythoi

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Deceptive invitation to feast.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts: hosts and guests. · view the constellation · filed as J1577

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Filed under Practical retorts: hosts and guests.

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Inviting to a feast only those whose households have never been touched by death. None comes

Filed beside it

Inhospitality repaid The greedy host Treatment of difficult guests Talker keeps person from eating Inappropriate entertainment repaid Luxury of host rebuked Host rebukes negligent servant Guest brings along cakes to eat. Stingy host rebuked "Cause liberality to be depicted." Answer of hungry man when host asks for suggestion for a picture to be painted of something that has not been seen