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Thersites

Thersites · m

a Greek before Troy

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
Ex Ponto 2 · 0.96/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Thersītes — Lewis & Short

Thersītes, ae, m., = *qersi/ths,

I a Greek before Troy, famous for his ugliness and scurrility, Ov. M. 13, 233; id. P. 3, 9, 10; Juv. 11, 31.—Hence, a contemptible person, Juv. 8, 269; and for a calumniator, reviler, Sen. Ira, 3, 23, 3.

In the wild

Thersitam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.15.11
Thersites Ovid, Remedia Amoris 482
Thersiten Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.4.15
Thersitam Seneca, De Ira 3.23.3
Thersitae Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.12.2
Thersites Ovid, Amores 2.6.41

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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