μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Captivity preferred to death.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J217

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Filed under Choice between evils.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Unsatisfactory life preferred to death Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughter Discontented ass longs for death but changes mind when he sees skins of dead asses at a fair
Filed beside it
Four choices, all of which are evil; man to make one choice only Choice: free poverty or enslaved wealth Choice: plainness with safety or grandeur with danger Choice: loss of beauty or speech. Latter chosen Choice: suffering in youth or old age Present evil preferred to change for worse Choice of deaths Enemies make peace rather than slay each other Choice: small injustice permitted rather than to cause troubles of state Rescue alone from shipwreck chosen over drowning with goods Choice between evils: pay tribute or lose both money and life Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong Difficult choice between relatives Death preferred to other evils Choice between evils – miscellaneous

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