μῦθος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[anything]], delivered by [[word]] of [[mouth]], [[word]], [[speech]], opp. to [[ἔργον]], Hom., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[speech]] in the [[public]] [[assembly]], Od., Ar.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[talk]], [[conversation]], [[mostly]] in plural, Od.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> [[counsel]], [[advice]], a [[command]], [[order]], also a [[promise]], Il.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> the [[subject]] of [[speech]], the [[thing]] or [[matter]] itself, Od., Eur.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> a [[resolve]], [[purpose]], [[design]], [[plan]], Hom.<br /><b class="num">7.</b> a [[saying]], saw, [[proverb]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">8.</b> the [[talk]] of men, [[rumour]], Soph., Eur.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[tale]], [[story]], [[narrative]], Hom.; μ. παιδός of or [[about]] him, Od.:—[[after]] Hom., [[μῦθος]], like Lat. [[fabula]], is a [[tale]], [[legend]], [[myth]], opp. to [[λόγος]] the [[historic]] [[tale]], Hdt., Plat., etc.: a [[fable]], [[such]] as those of Aesop, Plat.