fable
From LSJ
Φιλοσοφίαν δὲ τὴν μὲν κατὰ φύσιν, ὦ Βασιλεῦ, ἐπαίνει καὶ ἀσπάζου, τὴν δέ θεοκλυτεῖν φάσκουσαν παραίτου. → Praise and revere, O King, the philosophy that accords with nature, and avoid that which pretends to invoke the gods. (Philostratus, Ap. 5.37)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
old wives' fables: P. γραῶν ὕθλος, ὁ (Plato).
to have passed into the region of fable: P. ἐπὶ τὸ μυθῶδες ἐκνενικηκέναι (Thuc. 1, 21).
narrate in fables, verb transitive: P. μυθολογεῖν (acc.).
