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Headword:
Margitês
Adler number: mu,187
Translated headword: Margites
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A man made fun of for stupidity. [It is he] who they say was unable to count beyond 5; who took his bride home but did not touch her, instead being frightened and saying she might slander him to her mother; who did not know, and as a young man already asked his mother, whether he had been sired by his own father.
Greek Original:Margitês: anêr epi môriai kômôidoumenos. hon phasin arithmêsai men mê pleiô tôn e# dunêthênai: numphên de agomenon mê hapsasthai autês, alla phobeisthai legonta, mê têi mêtri auton diabalêi: agnoein de neanian êdê gegenêmenon kai punthanesthai tês mêtros, eige apo tou hautou patros etechthê.
Notes:
Also in
Photius (mu106 Theodoridis).
The name
Margites is used of both proverbal madmen and proverbial simpletons (
mu 185), and at
gamma 118 the present material attaches to someone called (apparently) Melitides.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 February 2007@07:51:47.
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