μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Choice: small injustice permitted rather than to cause troubles of state.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J221

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Filed under Choice between evils.

3 finer motifs beneath it
King overlooks wife's unfaithfulness rather than to cause troubles of state King chooses small inconvenience of personal troubles to great troubles for his kingdom. He suffers to help realm Man would rather pay 500 florins he did not owe than have it said he did not pay debts
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 Captivity preferred to death Enemies make peace rather than slay each other 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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