μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man is describing lakes. "One is bottomless; the other is deeper than that."

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd lack of logic. · Logical absurdity based upon certain false assumptions. · view the constellation · filed as J2217.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • EnglandBaughman.
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Filed under Many times the superlative.

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Man says: "That's the best horse in all England, but I have one in my stable worth ten of him. (Cf. J1743.1.)

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