μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Forethought in provision for food.

5 finer motifs beneath 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, starvesKing 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 kingdomWise 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
Filed beside it
Food alone keeps off hungerMake use of proper seasons for cropsKindness unwise when it imperils one's food supply

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