μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Marriage with equal or with unequal.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice of associates. · Association of equals and unequals. · view the constellation · filed as J414

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Filed under Association of equals and unequals.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Wife chosen instead of fairy mistress. They let man choose between them Prince prefers first love to princess he later marries Unsuccessful marriage of jackals and turtles (different abits)
Filed beside it
Great refuse to associate with lowly Profitable association of great and lowly Unprofitable association of unequals One's own kind preferred to strangers Man prefers to live with ordinary rather than with pious man. He will be virtuous by comparison

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