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English
Etymology
From Greek ἐπιμύθιον, neutral of ἐπιμύθιος, from ἐπί ‘upon’ + μῦθος ‘story, fable’.
Pronunciation
Noun
epimyth (plural epimyths)
- The moral of a story.
1881, William Fleming, Henry Calderwood, A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences, page 664:The epimyth, coming after the fable, the moral.
1934, Daniele Vare, The Quarterly Review, page 448:t is the Odyssean episode with a Christian epimyth.
1994, Reb Moshe Walich, Book of Fables: The Yiddish Fable Collection of Reb Moshe Wallich, Frankfurt Am Main, 1697, page 19:In principle each fable in the collection is divided into two parts: the narrative itself, followed by an explicit moral or epimyth.
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In most of the fables the length of the epimyth ranges between six and twelve lines.
2000, Edward W. Wheatley, Mastering Aesop: medieval education, Chaucer and his followers, page 227:resumably the “man of education” did not reproduce the epimyth of the fable, which warns that one should always anticipate the result of one's actions.
2004, Jerold C. Frakes, Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary, page 750:he first five fables follow a different sequence in the two texts, which causes a logical problem in the epimyth to fable no. 6 in Wallich's collection; and tale no. 35 from the earlier collection is omitted by Moses Wallich.