μῦθοι Mythoi
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King for a year provides for future. Knowing that the custom is that he is to be deposed in a year, he sends provisions to a safe place out of the kingdom.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought in provision for live. · Forethought in provision for food. · view the constellation · filed as J711.3

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • Jewishbin Gorion Born Judas IV 36, 275f.
  • general *Crane Vitry 137 No. 9
  • general Herbert III 63, 191
  • general Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 224
  • general *Chauvin II 160 No. 49, 192 No. 9, III 101 No. 8
  • general Scala Celi No. 134
  • general Alphabet No. 655. Spanish Exempla: Keller
Within the index

Filed under In time of plenty provide for want.

Filed beside it
Ant and lazy cricket (grasshopper). Lazy bird is put to shame by thrift of industrious bird. In winter he is in distressImprovident mouse eats grain stored for famine. Loss is discovered and grain placed elsewhere. Mouse, who has saved nothing, starvesWise man stores grain against coming famineIndustrious ant works always at his harvest to keep it dry. Ant brings stored grain out into sun to keep it safe
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