μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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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 stateKing chooses small inconvenience of personal troubles to great troubles for his kingdom. He suffers to help realmMan 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 onlyChoice: free poverty or enslaved wealthChoice: plainness with safety or grandeur with dangerChoice: loss of beauty or speech. Latter chosenChoice: suffering in youth or old agePresent evil preferred to change for worseChoice of deathsCaptivity preferred to deathEnemies make peace rather than slay each otherRescue alone from shipwreck chosen over drowning with goodsChoice between evils: pay tribute or lose both money and lifeChoice: apparent injustice over greater wrongDifficult choice between relativesDeath preferred to other evilsChoice between evils – miscellaneous

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