Amyris () of Sybaris in Italy, surnamed "the Wise", whose son was one of the suitors of

Agariste of Sicyon Agariste (; grc, Ἀγαρίστη) ( fl. 6th century BC, around 560 BC) was the daughter, and possibly the heiress, of the tyrant of Sicyon, Cleisthenes. Her father wanted to marry her to the "best of the Hellenes" and organized a competition whos ...

, at the beginning of the sixth century BCE. Amyris was sent by his fellow-citizens to consult the

Delphic oracle Pythia (; grc, Πυθία ) was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. She specifically served as its oracle and was known as the Oracle of Delphi. Her title was also historically glossed in English as the Pythoness ...

. His reputation for wisdom gave rise to the proverb , "the wise man is mad".

Zenobius Zenobius ( grc-gre, Ζηνόβιος) was a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (AD 117–138). Biography He was the author of a collection of proverbs in three books, still extant in an abridged form, ...

, ''Corpus paroemiographorum graecorum'' iv. 27

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