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Aftertale vs Epimythium - What's the difference?

aftertale | epimythium |

As nouns the difference between aftertale and epimythium

is that aftertale is ill talk; slander; defamation while epimythium is a moral appended to the end of a story; an aftertale.

aftertale

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Ill talk; slander; defamation.
  • *1999 , James Joyce, Finnegans Wake :
    • Our cad's bit of strife (knee Bareniece Maxwelton) with a quick ear for spittoons (as the aftertale hath it) [...]
  • A postscript added to the end of a story.
  • A postscript added where a story should end.

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    epimythium

    English

    Noun

    (epimythia)
  • A moral appended to the end of a story; an aftertale.
  • *1997 , Gert-Jan van Dijk, Ainoi, logoi, mythoi: fables in archaic, classical, and Hellenistic Greek :
    • The fable is explained in an epimythium : "Indeed, what a man neither uses nor intends to use, [...]"

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