μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Father with handsome son and hideous daughter. Advises both to look in mirror daily lest son exchange handsome face for bad character; daughter to triumph over face by good manners.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Real and apparent values. · Choice between useful and ornamental. · view the constellation · filed as J244.1

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  • general Wienert FFC LVI 83 (ET 494), 149 (ST 536).
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Filed under Goodness preferred to beauty.

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