Hyperides, In Defence of Lycophron, ed. J. O. Burtt, 7

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[7] And to crown it all, as I said just now, are we to conclude that Charippus was so completely obtuse that he was still prepared to marry her, although in the first place she said beforehand, according to their story, that she was pledged to me and in the second place he heard me encouraging her to keep the promises she had made? Do you think that the mad Orestes, or Margites,¹ the greatest fool of all time, would act like that?

In Defence of Lycophron. Hyperides. ed. J. O. Burtt. London. 1954.

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Ἀπολογία ὑπὲρ Λυκόφρονος Perseus (Hyperides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 7 focus

[7] τὸ δὲ κεφάλαιον¹ ἁπ άντων,² ὡς³ καὶ μικρῷ πρότερον⁴ εἶπον, εἰς τοῦτο ἀναισθησίας ὁ Χ άριππος, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἦλθεν, ὥστε πρότ ερον μέν, ὥς φασιν, τῆς γυναικὸς προλε γούσης ὅτι συνομωμο κυῖα εἴη πρὸς ἐμέ, πά λιν δὲ ἀκούων ἐμο ῦ παρακελευμένο υ αὐτῇ⁵ ὅπως ἐμμ είνειεν⁶ τοῖς ὅρκοις οἷ ς ὤμοσεν, ἐλάμβανε τὴν⁷ γυναῖκα; καὶ ταῦ τα δοκεῖ ἂν ὑμῖν ἢ Ὀρέστης⁸ ἐκεῖνος ὁ μαινόμενος ποιῆσαι ἢ Μαργίτης ὁ πάντ ων ἀβελτερώτατος;

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1. Margites, the hero of an old comic epic early attributed to Homer, came to be regarded as the typification of a fool.

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