Μαργίτης

Margites

Translated by David Whitehead7 Dec 2000Vetting: high6 revisions

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Aeschines in the [speech] Against Ktesiphon [writes]: "he gave Alexander the nickname Margites".¹ This is what they used to call witless people.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μαργίτης· Αἰσχίνης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Κτησιφῶντος· ἐπωνυμίαν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ Μαργίτην ἔθετο. ἐκάλουν δὲ τοὺς ἀνοήτους οὕτως.

Betacode

*margi/ths: *ai)sxi/nhs e)n tw=| kata\ *kthsifw=ntos: e)pwnumi/an *)aleca/ndrw| *margi/thn e)/qeto. e)ka/loun de\ tou\s a)noh/tous ou(/tws.

An abridgment of Harpokration s.v., where Marsyas (FGrH 135-6 F3) is cited.
For Margites see also mu 187.
1Aeschines 3.160 (web address 1), referring to Demosthenes. ↩

OCD(4) p.898

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