μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • JewishNeuman.
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Filed under Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge).

2 finer motifs beneath it
Wisdom from books bought at great price. (Sibylline). Nine books first offered at certain price. Finally after this is refused and the owner throws six of them into the fire, the king pays the same price for three of them. Finds them filled with wisdomWisdom from books of the antediluvians
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Wisdom from old personWisdom (knowledge) from sage (teacher)Wisdom from holy manWise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experienceWisdom (knowledge) from womenWisdom from foolsWisdom (knowledge) from dreamWisdom from angelTrial rehearsed before stick in the ground as judgeWisdom acquired by hanging in a treeWisdom purchasedWisdom from GodTree of knowledgeWisdom from continual reminder of foolishness in the past. Unjust judge skinned and his skin stretched over a footstool kept in the presence of judges, so as to remind them to be justInscription on walls for condensed educationProverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.)

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