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Fischart's Gargantua im Spielverzeichnis, chapt. 25.

1. In the Lysistrata of Aristophanes the chorus of old men begins with, "I will tell ye a story", and they tell of Melanion, who had not loved women, but had only taken pleasure in going hunting on the mountains. In the antistrophe of the women, where the expression is repeated, the story of the misanthrope Timon is related.

2. Strabo, i. 2 (p. 51, ed. Siebenkees). We tell children pretty stories to gladden them ; but to restrain them, we tell them terrible ones like that of Lamia, the Gorgon, Ephialtes, and the Mormolukê).