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Echetus

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Canonical name
Echetus
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Character
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Individual
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Aliases

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king Echetus

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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Claims

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·Reported

Antinous describes Echetus as a king who kills everyone who comes near him.

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“send you to king Echetus, who kills every one that comes near him”
·Hypothetical

Antinous threatens to send the disguised Ulysses to King Echetus, who kills everyone approaching him, predicting he will not escape alive.

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“king Echetus, who kills every one that comes near him: you will never get away alive”

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·Reported
“king Echetus, who kills every one that comes near him”
·Reported
“king Echetus, who kills every one that comes near him”

Passage preview

Book 18 · Passage 10

Irus began to be very uneasy as he heard them, but the servants girded him by force, and brought him [into the open part of the court] in such a fright that his limbs were all of a tremble. Antinous scolded him and said, ‘You swaggering bully, you ought never to have been born at all if you are afraid of such an old broken down creature as this tramp is. I say, therefore—and it shall surely be—if he beats you and proves himself the better man, I shall pack you off on board ship to the mainland and send you to king Echetus, who kills every one that comes near him. He will cut off your nose and ears, and draw out your entrails for the dogs to eat.’