Sense

1. to say, speak, to say that, to order, to tell, recount, to tell of, to say, speak, utter, to speak
2. to say over to oneself, con over, consider

Examples

• μυθεῖται δ’ ἀπάλαμνα τὰ νήφοσι γίγνεται αἰσχρά· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 32 2:1)
• μυθεῖται κατὰ μοῖραν ἅπερ κ’ οἰοίτο καὶ ἄλλοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 87 6:6)
• πᾶσ δ’ ὑπὸ κόλπῳ χεῖρασ ἔχων πόθεν οἴσεται ἀθρεῖ ἄργυρον, οὐδέ κεν ἰὸν ἀποτρίψασ τινὶ δοίη, ἀλλ’ εὐθὺσ μυθεῖται· (Theocritus, Idylls, 10)
• ὃσ δ’ ἂν ὑπερβάλλῃ πόσιοσ μέτρον, οὐκέτι κεῖνοσ τῆσ αὐτοῦ γλώσσησ καρτερὸσ οὐδὲ νόου, μυθεῖται δ’ ἀπάλαμνα τὰ νήφοσι γίνεται αἰσχρά, αἰδεῖται θ’ ἑρ́δων οὐδέν, ὅταν μεθύῃ, τὸ πρὶν ἐὼν σώφρων, τότε νήπιοσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389257)
• "ὦ φίλοι, οὐ μὰν ἧμιν ἀπὸ σκοποῦ οὐδ’ ἀπὸ δόξησ μυθεῖται βασίλεια περίφρων· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 43:2)

Similar forms

• μυθέομαι (3)
• μυθεόμην (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.