Fragment #1—Suidas, s.v.: Pigres. A Carian of Halicarnassus and brother
of Artemisia, wife of Mausolus, who distinguished herself in war...
3401 He also wrote the _Margites_ attributed to Homer and the _Battle
of the Frogs and Mice_.
Fragment #2—Atilius Fortunatianus, p. 286, Keil: ‘There came to
Colophon an old man and divine singer, a servant of the Muses and of
far-shooting Apollo. In his dear hands he held a sweet-toned lyre.’
Fragment #3—Plato, Alcib. ii. p. 147 A: ‘He knew many things but knew
all badly...’
Aristotle, Nic. Eth. vi. 7, 1141: ‘The gods had taught him neither to
dig nor to plough, nor any other skill; he failed in every craft.’
Fragment #4—Scholiast on Aeschines in Ctes., sec. 160: He refers to
Margites, a man who, though well grown up, did not know whether it was
his father or his mother who gave him birth, and would not lie with his
wife, saying that he was afraid she might give a bad account of him to
her mother.
Fragment #5—Zenobius, v. 68: ‘The fox knows many a wile; but the
hedge-hog’s one trick 3402 can beat them all.’ 3403