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Ulysses’s ships in the Aetolian’s report

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Ulysses’s ships in the Aetolian’s report
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Editorial note
These ships exist only in the Aetolian’s report remembered by Eumaeus.

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·Reported

The Aetolian falsely reports Ulysses’s ships damaged in a gale and undergoing repairs among the Cretans.

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“refitting his ships which had been damaged in a gale”

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·Remembered
“refitting his ships which had been damaged in a gale”

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 20

‘As for me I live out of the way here with the pigs, and never go to the town unless when Penelope sends for me on the arrival of some news about Ulysses. Then they all sit round and ask questions, both those who grieve over the king’s absence, and those who rejoice at it because they can eat up his property without paying for it. For my own part I have never cared about asking anyone else since the time when I was taken in by an Aetolian, who had killed a man and come a long way till at last he reached my station, and I was very kind to him. He said he had seen Ulysses with Idomeneus among the Cretans, refitting his ships which had been damaged in a gale. He said Ulysses would return in the following summer or autumn with his men, and that he would bring back much wealth. And now you, you unfortunate old man, since fate has brought you to my door, do not try to flatter me in this way with vain hopes. It is not for any such reason that I shall treat you kindly, but only out of respect for Jove the god of hospitality, as fearing him and pitying you.’