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57:. With one gulp of the sea she brought the mountains to view; islands appeared after the next. The third is yet to come and will dry the sea altogether, thus depriving the ferryman of his livelihood. Aristotle's reason for reporting this was in connection with the belief of the pre-Socratic philosopher
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when Aesop was mocked by shipbuilders. In this case he told them the creation myth in which the king of the gods wished to make dry land emerge when there was only chaos and water. Earth was therefore commanded to take three gulps, the third of which will dry up the sea altogether. The fable is
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Ainoi, logoi, mythoi: fables in archaic, classical, and
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that the sea's level was gradually lowering and that it would eventually disappear.
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55:Charybdis
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119:fable 3
66:Babrius
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