μύθου (mythou)

μύθου is an Ancient Greek form of μῦθος, meaning “word, speech, tale”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 68 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.116: … έσοι, μὴ ὅτι εἰς παντελῆ εὐδαιμονίαν κεκτημένον. Ταῦτα δὴ πάντα, Πυθόκλεις, μνημόνευσον· κατὰ πολύ τε γὰρ τοῦ μύθου ἐκβήσῃ καὶ τὰ ὁμογενῆ τούτοις συνορᾶν δυνήσῃ· μάλιστα δὲ σεαυτὸν ἀπόδος εἰς τὴν τῶν ἀρχῶν καὶ ἀπειρίας καὶ τῶ …

Lucian of Samosata, Saturnalia 8: Ἐγὼ δέ, ὦ Κρόνε, καὶ τοῦτο εἴκαζον τὸ εἰς τοὺς δούλους καὶ πεδότριβας φιλάνθρωπον ἐκ τοῦ μυθου ἐκείνου ποιεῖν σε τιμῶντα τοὺς τὰ ὅμοια πάσχοντας, ἅτε καὶ αὐτὸν δουλεύοντα, μεμνημένον τῆς πέδης. Οὐ παύσῃ γ …

All forms of μῦθος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.