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Ulixes

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

Ulixēs, is, eī or ī, m.: Ulysses, son of Laertes, king of Ithaca, and one of the Greek chiefs at Troy, distinguished for shrewdness and cunning, 2.44, et al.
Ŭlixes (sometimes, on account of the Gr. Ὀδυσσεύς, erroneously written Ŭlys-ses), is (also Ulixei, Hor. C. 1, 6, 7; id. Epod. 16, 60; 17, 16; Aus. Ep. 16, 13; also, by synizesis, Ulixei, trisyl., Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 40; Ov. M. 14, 159; 14, 671; Aus. Ep. 24; and, Ulixi, Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; Verg. E. 8, 70; id. A. 2, 7; 3, 273; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 63), m. [from the Etruscan Uluxe, or from the Siculian Οὐλίξης; v. Müll. Etrusk. 2, p. 279],
  • the Latin name for Odysseus, Engl. Ulysses, king of Ithaca, famed among the Grecian heroes of the Trojan war for his craft and eloquence; the son of Laertes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope, and father of Telemachus and Telegonus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; 2, 21, 49; 5, 3, 7; id. Off. 1, 31, 113; Prop. 3, 12, 25 (4, 11, 23) sq.; Ov. H. 1, 84; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 18; 1, 6, 63; id. C. 1, 6, 7; id. Epod. 16, 60; 17, 16.

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