Margites
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Margites
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The Margites is a comic mock-epic ascribed to Homer that is largely lost. From references to the work that survived, it is known that its central character is an exceedingly stupid man named Margites, who was so dense he did not know which parent had given birth to him. His name gave rise to the recherché adjective margitomanēs (μαργιτομανής), "mad as Margites", used by Philodemus. It was commonly attributed to Homer, as by Aristotle: "His Margites indeed provides an analogy: as are the Iliad an
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