μῦθος (mythos)
Short definition (LSJ): public speech, μ. ἄνδρεσσι μελήσει
Full entry: Lexicon.
105 occurrences of this form in 51 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Odyssey
- Argonautica
- Laws
- Isis and Osiris
- Iliad
- Library of History
- Ion
- Antigone
- The Libation Bearers
- The Suppliants
- Hippolytus
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- Medea
- The Suppliants
- Meditations
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- Theaetetus
- On the Delays of Divine Vengeance
- Electra
- Prometheus Bound
- The Eumenides
- Sirach
- Metaphysics
- Alcestis
- Andromache
- Hecuba
- Helen
- Heracleidae
- Iphigenia in Tauris
- Orestes
- Rhesus
- The Phoenician Women
- Histories (Books 1–2)
- The Jewish War, Book 6
- About the Planting of Noah
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Epinomis
- Gorgias
- Letters
- Phaedrus
- Philebus
- Republic
- Symposium
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- Ajax
- Oedipus at Colonus
- Idylls
Example passages
…ἀλλʼ εἰς οἶκον ἰοῦσα τὰ σʼ αὐτῆς ἔργα κόμιζε, ἱστόν τʼ ἠλακάτην τε, καὶ ἀμφιπόλοισι κέλευε ἔργον ἐποίχεσθαι· μῦθος δʼ ἄνδρεσσι μελήσει πᾶσι, μάλιστα δʼ ἐμοί· τοῦ γὰρ κράτος ἔστʼ ἐνὶ οἴκῳ. ἡ μὲν θαμβήσασα πάλιν οἶκόνδε βεβήκει·…
…ὧς ἔφατʼ· ἐν δʼ ἀγορὴ πλῆτο θρόου. εὔαδε γάρ σφιν μῦθος. ἀτὰρ μετὰ τήνγε παρασχεδὸν αὖτις ἀνῶρτο Ὑψιπύλη, καὶ τοῖον ὑποβλήδην ἔπος ηὔδα· εἰ μὲν δὴ πάσῃσιν ἐφανδάνει ἥδε μενοινή, ἤδη κεν μετὰ νῆα καὶ ἄγγελον ὀτρύναιμι.…
…γένη. καὶ οὕτω δὴ περὶ θαυμάτων ὡς ὄντων ἡμῶν ὁ μῦθος ἀρετῆς σεσωμένος ἂν εἴη, καὶ τὸ κρείττω ἑαυτοῦ καὶ ἥττω εἶναι τρόπον τινὰ φανερὸν ἂν γίγνοιτο μᾶλλον ὃ νοεῖ, καὶ ὅτι πόλιν καὶ ἰδιώτην, τὸν μὲν λόγον ἀληθῆ λαβόντα ἐν ἑαυτῷ περὶ τῶν ἕλξεων τούτων,……