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Phoenician who plotted to sell Ulysses’s Cretan persona

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Phoenician who plotted to sell Ulysses’s Cretan persona
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This individual exists only within Ulysses’s lying Cretan biography.

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Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Phoenicia1 observation
·Disguised

The Phoenician took the Cretan persona to Phoenicia and later put him aboard ship there.

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“‘I stayed there for seven years and got together much money among the Egyptians, for they all gave me some thing; but when it was now going on for eight years there came a certain Phoenician, a cunning rascal, who had already committed all sorts of villainy, and this man talked me over into going with him to Phoenicia, where his house and his possessions lay. I stayed there for a whole twelve months, but at the end of that time when months and days had gone by till the same season had come round again, he set me on board a ship bound for Libya, on a pretence that I was to take a cargo along with him to that place, but really that he might sell me as a slave and take the money I fetched. I suspected his intention, but went on board with him, for I could not help it. ”

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·Disguised

A cunning, villainous Phoenician lures the persona to Phoenicia and later boards him for Libya intending to sell him as a slave.

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“a certain Phoenician, a cunning rascal, who had already committed all sorts of villainy, and this man talked me over into going with him to Phoenicia, where his house and his possessions lay. I stayed there for a whole twelve months, but at the end of that time when months and days had gone by till the same season had come round again, he set me on board a ship bound for Libya, on a pretence that I was to take a cargo along with him to that place, but really that he might sell me as a slave and take the money I fetched”

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·Disguised
“a certain Phoenician, a cunning rascal”

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Book 14 · Passage 15

‘I stayed there for seven years and got together much money among the Egyptians, for they all gave me some thing; but when it was now going on for eight years there came a certain Phoenician, a cunning rascal, who had already committed all sorts of villainy, and this man talked me over into going with him to Phoenicia, where his house and his possessions lay. I stayed there for a whole twelve months, but at the end of that time when months and days had gone by till the same season had come round again, he set me on board a ship bound for Libya, on a pretence that I was to take a cargo along with him to that place, but really that he might sell me as a slave and take the money I fetched. I suspected his intention, but went on board with him, for I could not help it.