epimythium
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἐπιμύθιον (epimúthion). More at epimyth.
Noun edit
epimythium (plural 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, […] "