The details of Archilochus's life, in the ancient biographical tradition, are derived for the most part from his poems an unreliable source because the events he described may have been fictitious or may have involved imaginary personae or ritual situations.
In effect if not intention, the banks had been creating fictitious profits, much of which ultimately ended up as losses.
No matter: The damage had been done, the fictitious tale having found many believers, either eager or fearful, among the German public.
In some instances in the case announced yesterday, the ring solicited people with previously damaged cars, who then claimed that they had been damaged in fictitious accidents, officials said.
The Swiss bank claimed the loss resulted from unauthorised trading in London that was within its "normal business flow" and alleged that "the true magnitude of the risk exposure was distorted because the positions had been offset" with "fictitious" forward positions.
In a statement on Sunday, UBS said it had failed to notice the trading of index futures on the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, the DAX in Frankfurt and the Euro Stoxx 50 because they had been offset by fictitious positions that kept the transactions within the bank's risk-exposure limits.
Chandler had discovered that during Delano's tenure, money had been paid to fictitious clerks while other clerks had been paid without performing any services.
The Army statement said that when General Forrester had been informed that the citations were fictitious, he had "left the matter in the hands" of Army authorities.
He said he had been forcibly treated for fictitious mental problems and his wife had left him.
Picard had been seeking $1 billion in fictitious profits and principal paid out in the last six years of the fraud, as permitted under New York State law.
