LYCINUS
Just as Cleodemus said that, Alcidamas the Cynic romped in uninvited, getting off the commonplace joke about Menelaus coming of his own accord.
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Most of them thought he had done an impudent thing, and they slyly retorted. with the first thing they could think of, one growling under his breath,
Menelaus, thou’rt a fool!
Iliad 7, 109.
another:
But Agamemnon, Atreus’ son, was sorely vexed,
Iliad 1, 24.
and others other remarks that, in the circumstances, were to the point and witty. But nobody dared to speak out, for they all feared Alcidamas, who was really “good at the war-cry,”
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and the noisiest of all the Cynic barkers, for which reason he was considered a superior person and was a great terror to everybody.
Just as Cleodemus said that, Alcidamas the Cynic romped in uninvited, getting off the commonplace joke about Menelaus coming of his own accord.
1
Most of them thought he had done an impudent thing, and they slyly retorted. with the first thing they could think of, one growling under his breath,
Iliad 7, 109.
another:
Iliad 1, 24.
and others other remarks that, in the circumstances, were to the point and witty. But nobody dared to speak out, for they all feared Alcidamas, who was really “good at the war-cry,”
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and the noisiest of all the Cynic barkers, for which reason he was considered a superior person and was a great terror to everybody.
Menelaus, thou’rt a fool!
But Agamemnon, Atreus’ son, was sorely vexed,
Symposium. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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