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ship prepared by Pheidon for Ulysses’s return

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Canonical name
ship prepared by Pheidon for Ulysses’s return
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Editorial note
This ship is asserted only within Ulysses’s lying Cretan biography.

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Location presence

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Claims

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·Disguised

A ship waits by the water to carry Ulysses home.

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“the ship was by the water side, and the crew found, that should take him to his own country”
·Disguised

Pheidon is said to have a ship ready by the water to carry Ulysses home.

See evidence text
“the ship was by the water side and the crew found who would take Ulysses to his own country.”

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2
·Disguised
“the ship was by the water side”
·Disguised
“the ship was by the water side”

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 17

‘There it was that I heard news of Ulysses, for the king told me he had entertained him, and shown him much hospitality while he was on his homeward journey. He showed me also the treasure of gold, and wrought iron that Ulysses had got together. There was enough to keep his family for ten generations, so much had he left in the house of king Pheidon. But the king said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove’s mind from the god’s high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly, or in secret. Moreover the king swore in my presence, making drink-offerings in his own house as he did so, that the ship was by the water side, and the crew found, that should take him to his own country. He sent me off however before Ulysses returned, for there happened to be a Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheat-growing island of Dulichium, and he told those in charge of her to be sure and take me safely to King Acastus.