HOW TO PRONOUNCE
ulysses
/juˈlɪsiz/
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What does ulysses mean?
proper noun
- The Latin equivalent of Odysseus.
- A male given name.
- A city, the county seat of Grant County, Kansas, United States. Named after Ulysses S. Grant.
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IPA pronunciation
/juˈlɪsiz/
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Yet they say all the yarn she spun in Ulysses’ absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths.
With unrelaxed nerves, with morning vigor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses.
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If the vulgar crew of the vessel of Ulysses were by Circe changed into brutes, so was not their commander.
Amongst those who were detained in prison for their trials was Andocides the orator, whose descent the historian Hellanicus deduces from Ulysses.
And the sirens, in Homer, to allure Ulysses, and draw him within the danger of their snares, offered to give him knowledge.