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steersmen of the Cretan persona’s nine-ship fleet

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Canonical name
steersmen of the Cretan persona’s nine-ship fleet
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Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
This bounded crew role exists only within Ulysses’s lying Cretan biography.

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Claims

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·Disguised

Steersmen guide the ships as the wind carries them.

See evidence text
“let the ships go as the wind and steersmen took them”

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·Disguised
“the wind and steersmen took them”

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 13

‘My house grew apace and I became a great man among the Cretans, but when Jove counselled that terrible expedition, in which so many perished, the people required me and Idomeneus to lead their ships to Troy, and there was no way out of it, for they insisted on our doing so. There we fought for nine whole years, but in the tenth we sacked the city of Priam and sailed home again as heaven dispersed us. Then it was that Jove devised evil against me. I spent but one month happily with my children, wife, and property, and then I conceived the idea of making a descent on Egypt, so I fitted out a fine fleet and manned it. I had nine ships, and the people flocked to fill them. For six days I and my men made feast, and I found them many victims both for sacrifice to the gods and for themselves, but on the seventh day we went on board and set sail from Crete with a fair North wind behind us though we were going down a river. Noth ing went ill with any of our ships, and we had no sickness on board, but sat where we were and let the ships go as the wind and steersmen took them. On the fifth day we reached the river Aegyptus; there I stationed my ships in the river, bidding my men stay by them and keep guard over them while I sent out scouts to reconnoitre from every point of vantage.