Thersites

[ ther-sahy-teez ]

noun
  1. (in the Iliad) a Greek who accused Agamemnon of greed and Achilles of cowardice during the Trojan War.

Words Nearby Thersites

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use Thersites in a sentence

  • Thersites would have been at once pulled down and beaten; the host would not have rushed to the ships on his motion.

    Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
  • We never hear again of Thersites, or of any one of the commonalty, daring to open his mouth in an assembly.

    Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
  • Before Agamemnon thus displayed his ineptitude, as he often does later, Thersites had no chance.

    Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
  • The assembly meets again in great confusion; Thersites seizes the chance to be insolent, and is beaten by Odysseus.

    Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
  • Favorinus extolled Thersites, and wrote in praise of a quartan ague.

    In Praise of Folly | Desiderius Erasmus

British Dictionary definitions for Thersites

Thersites

/ (θəˈsaɪtiːz) /


noun
  1. the ugliest and most evil-tongued fighter on the Greek side in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles when he mocked him

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012