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Thersites
The ugliest and basest of the Greeks at Troy, who outlived nobler men; proof that the worst survive while the best die young.
Reading notes
- The Loves §2.6 Thersites
The basest and ugliest Greek at Troy, who outlived his betters; proof the worst survive while the best die young.
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.9 Thersites was of good face
Thersites, the ugliest and most scurrilous of the Greeks at Troy; the proverbial extreme of deformity an author's bias might overlook.
- Metamorphoses §13.395 Thersites
The ugliest and most insolent of the Greeks, who reviled the chiefs.
- The Cure for Love §14 Thersites
The ugly, low-born railer of the Greek camp; here a figure of the lowest subject.