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O•dys•se•us
Pronunciation: (ō-dis'ē-us, ō-dis'yOOs), [key]—
n. Class. Myth.
king of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of the
Iliad and protagonist of the
Odyssey: shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War. Latin,
Ulysses. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.