Definitions for Thersites

Thersites Ther·si·tes

Spelling: [ther-sahy-teez]
IPA: /θərˈsaɪ tiz/

Thersites is a 9 letter English word.

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Definitions for Thersites

noun

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

Examples for Thersites

He was a species of Thersites, and no dread of punishment could control his railing.

All this was well enough; but Looe had a Thersites in its camp.

Thersites' mood has past, and now for benevolence and friendship.

Achilles or Thersites; sometimes a hero, at others a villain.

The chief exception (Thersites) is described in a way which only proves the rule.

All this about Thersites is really "saga" stuff,—invented about the date of the Aethiopis.

It is the very vice which Homer attacks in the odious character of Thersites.

Thersites, the ugliest of mortals, chose the form of an ape.

The devil and the Other are, as it were, characters; one may speak of them just as of Achilles and Thersites.

At sight of him, Homer's Thersites came to the mind of Petronius.

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