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Nisus

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Nisus
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

1

son to king Aretias

Descriptive reference · Direct

Location presence

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0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

3
·Direct

Nisus is Amphinomus’s father and king Aretias’s son.

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“son of Nisus, who was son to king Aretias, and he was foremost among all the suitors”
·Reported

Nisus is reported to be Amphinomus’s father and a brave, wealthy man of Dulichium.

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“your father well spoken of; he is Nisus of Dulichium, a man both brave and wealthy”
·Direct

Nisus is identified as Amphinomus’s father and Aretias’s son.

See evidence text
“Amphinomus the son of Nisus, who was son to Aretias,”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Direct
“He was the son of Nisus, who was son to king Aretias”
·Direct
“Amphinomus the son of Nisus, who was son to Aretias”

Passage preview

Book 16 · Passage 36

They all held their peace until Amphinomus rose to speak. He was the son of Nisus, who was son to king Aretias, and he was foremost among all the suitors from the wheat-growing and well grassed island of Dulichium; his conversation, moreover, was more agreeable to Penelope than that of any of the other suitors, for he was a man of good natural disposition. ‘My friends,’ said he, speaking to them plainly and in all honestly, ‘I am not in favour of killing Telemachus. It is a heinous thing to kill one who is of noble blood. Let us first take counsel of the gods, and if the oracles of Jove advise it, I will both help to kill him myself, and will urge everyone else to do so; but if they dissuade us, I would have you hold your hands.’