Thersites
(in the Iliad) a Greek who accused Agamemnon of greed and Achilles of cowardice during the Trojan War.
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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 LangWe 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 LangBefore Agamemnon thus displayed his ineptitude, as he often does later, Thersites had no chance.
Homer and His Age | Andrew LangThe assembly meets again in great confusion; Thersites seizes the chance to be insolent, and is beaten by Odysseus.
Homer and His Age | Andrew LangFavorinus extolled Thersites, and wrote in praise of a quartan ague.
In Praise of Folly | Desiderius Erasmus
British Dictionary definitions for Thersites
/ (θəˈsaɪtiːz) /
the ugliest and most evil-tongued fighter on the Greek side in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles when he mocked him
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