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[597] μύθοισιν ἔπεσσί τε. Eustath. says, “οὐ δοκεῖ διαφορά τις εἶναι ὡς οὐδὲ πρὸ ὀλίγων” ( Od.3. 317) “ἐν τῷ κέλομαι καὶ ἄνωγα”. Compare “ἔπος καὶ μῦθον” Od.11. 561.Nitzsch maintains that μῦθος is more subjective, i. e. that it describes the story as it bears the impress of the mind of the teller; while ἔπος represents the story merely as so much information. But the opposite view is defended by Schmidt, Synonomik I. pp. 13 foll.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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