A.“μυθέαι” 2.202: 3pl. Ion. impf. “μυθέσκοντο” Il.18.289: fut. “μυθήσομαι” 2.488, S.Aj.865: Ep. aor. “μυθήσατο” Il.17.200: (μῦθος):
I. speak, abs., Il.7.76, 8.40, etc.; “μειλίχως μυθεύμενος” Semon.7.18; converse, “ἀλλήλοισιν” A.R.1.458: c. acc. et inf., say that . . , Il.21.462: c. inf., order, A.Pr.664, prob. (for μυθεύομαι) in Perict. ap. Stob.4.28.19: c. acc., tell, recount, “πληθὺν δ᾽ οὐκ ἂν ἐγὼ μυθήσομαι οὐδ᾽ ὀνομήνω” Il.2.488, cf. Od.11.517; “οὕς κεν ἐῢ γνοίην καί τ᾽ οὔνομα μυθησαίμην” Il.3.235; tell of, “Σκύλλην” Od.12.223; “κήδεα” 11.376: c. acc. cogn., speak, utter, μῦθον μ. explain the reason, 3.140; κερτομίας, ὀνείδεα μυθήσασθαι, Il. 20.202,246; “ἀληθέα” 6.382; “ἐτήτυμα” Hes.Op.10; “μέγα” Theoc.10.20; “νημερτέα” Il.6.376; “νημερτέως” Od.19.269; “τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἐν Ἅιδου τοῖς κάτω μυθήσομαι” S. l. c.: c. dupl. acc., call so and so, “πόλιν μ. πολύχρυσον” Il.18.289: folld. by relat. or interrog. clause, “τόν τοι μυθήσομαι, οἷος ἔην” Od.19.245, cf. Pi.P.4.298.
II. say over to oneself, con over, consider, dub. in Od.13.191: in full, “προτὶ ὃν μυθήσατο θυμόν” Il.17.200; “πάντα Ζεὺς μυθεῖται” Democr.30.—Used in Ep. and Trag.; never in Com. or Att. Prose.—Act. μυθέω in Democr.297 as v. l. for μυθοπλαστέω; μυθεῦσαι (i. e. μυθοῦσαι) dub. in E.IA789 (lyr.); μυθήσας: εἰπών, Phot.