Thersites, son of Agrins, whom Homer, in the Iliad, makes the ugliest and most impudent of the Greeks before Troy. His name became a synonym for dastardly impudence. Later poets say he was slain by Achilles for calumniating him.
Thersites
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 173
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