μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed under Choice between evils.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Choice of freeing one son: adopted son or long-missing sonChoice: blind son with long life or healthy son with short. Latter chosenChoice: foolish son always with him or four wise daughters who will leave him. Latter chosen
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 otherChoice: small injustice permitted rather than to cause troubles of stateRescue alone from shipwreck chosen over drowning with goodsChoice between evils: pay tribute or lose both money and lifeChoice: apparent injustice over greater wrongDeath preferred to other evilsChoice between evils – miscellaneous

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