μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Friendship.

8 finer motifs beneath it
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 bodyFriend's intercession saves man from executionThe 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
Filed beside it
Friends want to divide good and evilFriends avenge each otherDying hero sends greetings to friendsFriends want their children to be friends tooDefeated enemy turns true friend. (Cf. P311.1.)One friend dies shortly after the otherMan wins wife for his friendFriendship possible only between equalsFriends given the power of reading each other's secret thoughtsSworn brethren. Friends take an oath of lasting brotherhoodBlood-brotherhood. Friends take oath of brotherhood by means of mixing their bloodMilk-brotherhood. Friends bound in brotherhood through partaking of milk from the same womanCombat of disguised friendsFriends offer to die for each other. (Bürgschaft.) Each falsely confesses crime so as to save the other. Neither guilty. Often combined with P325Friend sacrifices his life for the otherRefusal to believe that a friend has spoken ill of one

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