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ulysses

/juˈlɪsiz/

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What does ulysses mean?

proper noun

  1. The Latin equivalent of Odysseus.
  2. A male given name.
  3. 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.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
With unrelaxed nerves, with morning vigor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses.
Henry David ThoreauWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceProject Gutenberg ebook #205
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If the vulgar crew of the vessel of Ulysses were by Circe changed into brutes, so was not their commander.
William GodwinThoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorProject Gutenberg ebook #743
Amongst those who were detained in prison for their trials was Andocides the orator, whose descent the historian Hellanicus deduces from Ulysses.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
And the sirens, in Homer, to allure Ulysses, and draw him within the danger of their snares, offered to give him knowledge.
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600