μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • Italian NovellaRotunda.
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Filed under Deeds of friendship – miscellaneous.

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Two friends captured by Moors have money to ransom only one. The ransomed one returns home, gets money and buys the other's freedomMan who has counseled friend in assassination asks to be killed on the other's bodyThe sacred partnership. Man is abducted by pirates and kept in slavery forty years. Upon his return his friend divides his earnings with himHands of friends extend through sides of tombs and clasp in deathSuccessful rival gives his lady to unsuccessful friend"Friendship without refusal." Friends bind themselves each to grant every desire of the otherDanger of one saint voluntarily incurred by another

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