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Ctesippus

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Canonical name
Ctesippus
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Individual
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Aliases

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son of Polytherses

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Claims

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·Direct

Ctesippus is a ribald, very wealthy suitor from Same who courts Penelope and mockingly proposes a gift for the stranger.

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“a ribald fellow, whose name was Ctesippus, and who came from Same. This man, confident in his great wealth, was paying court to the wife of Ulysses, and said to the suitors, ‘Hear what I have to say. The stranger has already had as large a portion as any one else; this is well, for it is not right nor reasonable to ill-treat any guest of Telemachus who comes here. I will, however, make him a present on my own account, that he may have something to give to the bath-woman, or to some other of Ulysses’ servants”
·Direct

Ctesippus hurls a heifer’s foot at Ulysses, but misses when Ulysses turns aside.

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“he picked up a heifer’s foot from the meat-basket in which it lay, and threw it at Ulysses, but Ulysses turned his head a little aside, and avoided it, smiling grimly Sardinian fashion {159} as he did so, and it hit the wall, not him”
·Direct

Ctesippus grazes Eumaeus’s shoulder with a spear and is then struck in the breast by Philoetius.

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“Ctesippus managed to graze Eumaeus’s shoulder above his shield; but the spear went on and fell to the ground. Then Ulysses and his men let drive into the crowd of suitors. Ulysses hit Eurydamas, Telemachus Amphimedon, and Eumaeus Polybus. After this the stockman hit Ctesippus in the breast”

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·Direct
“a ribald fellow, whose name was Ctesippus, and who came from Same.”
·Direct
“Ctesippus managed to graze Eumaeus’s shoulder above his shield”

Passage preview

Book 20 · Passage 27

But Minerva would not let the suitors for one moment drop their insolence, for she wanted Ulysses to become still more bitter against them. Now there happened to be among them a ribald fellow, whose name was Ctesippus, and who came from Same. This man, confident in his great wealth, was paying court to the wife of Ulysses, and said to the suitors, ‘Hear what I have to say. The stranger has already had as large a portion as any one else; this is well, for it is not right nor reasonable to ill-treat any guest of Telemachus who comes here. I will, however, make him a present on my own account, that he may have something to give to the bath-woman, or to some other of Ulysses’ servants.’