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Arybas

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Canonical name
Arybas
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Character
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Individual
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Claims

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·Remembered

Arybas is immensely wealthy and the father of Eumaeus’s Phoenician nurse.

See evidence text
“daughter to Arybas, a man rolling in wealth”

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·Remembered
“Arybas, a man rolling in wealth”

Passage preview

Book 15 · Passage 35

‘Now to this place there came some cunning traders from Phoenicia (for the Phoenicians are great mariners) in a ship which they had freighted with gewgaws of all kinds. There happened to be a Phoenician woman in my father’s house, very tall and comely, and an excellent servant; these scoundrels got hold of her one day when she was washing near their ship, seduced her, and cajoled her in ways that no woman can resist, no matter how good she may be by nature. The man who had seduced her asked her who she was and where she came from, and on this she told him her father’s name. ‘I come from Sidon,’ said she, ‘and am daughter to Arybas, a man rolling in wealth. One day as I was coming into the town from the country, some Taphian pirates seized me and took me here over the sea, where they sold me to the man who owns this house, and he gave them their price for me.’