Reworking
A note on the story order (below): in all versions of Syntipas, the second story told by the seventh master is Ingenia, or, The Trick: The Wiles of Women Collection. In this story, a man believes he has recorded every instance of women's trickery and deceit, throughout history. He is then challenged by a woman, which demonstrates that women's creative capacity for deception cannot be captured in a single text. As part of that story, the author of the Reworking / Metaphrasis inserted a new, additional story. The redactor added this new tale into the frame of Ingenia, and it is narrated by the woman herself: she tells this tale, titled Ingenia 3, or The Fish in the Field, to the man, who does not have it recorded in his 'Wiles of Women' collection. It serves both as a further example of the deception of which women are capable, and also the limits of men's ability to comprehend them. Ingenia 3 is entered below as its' own story, as the 20th story told; however, it should be understood as part of the previous narrative.
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Pattern of Embedded Stories in This Version
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