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Ulixes

the Latin name for Odysseus

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Where it lives

Achilleis 13 · 18.05/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 2 · 3.63/10k
Silvae 7 · 2.79/10k
Metamorphoses 21 · 2.7/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Ex Ponto 5 · 2.41/10k
Aeneid 14 · 2.21/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
Ars Amatoria 3 · 2.02/10k
Epistulae 5 · 1.96/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ŭlixes — Lewis & Short

ŭlixes (sometimes, on account of the Gr. *)odusseu/s, erroneously written ŭlys-ses), is (also Ulixei,

Hor. C. 1, 6, 7; id. Epod. 16, 60; 17, 16; Aus. Ep. 16, 13; also,

I by synizesis, Ulixei, trisyl., Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 40; Ov. M. 14, 159; 14, 671; Aus. Ep. 24; and, Ulixi, Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; Verg. E. 8, 70; id. A. 2, 7; 3, 273; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 63), m. from the Etruscan Uluxe, or from the Siculian *ou)li/chs; v. Müll. Etrusk. 2, p. 279, the Latin name for Odysseus, Engl. Ulysses, king of Ithaca, famed among the Grecian heroes of the Trojan war for his craft and eloquence; the son of Laertes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope, and father of Telemachus and Telegonus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; 2, 21, 49; 5, 3, 7; id. Off. 1, 31, 113; Prop. 3, 12, 25 (4, 11, 23) sq.; Ov. H. 1, 84; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 18; 1, 6, 63; id. C. 1, 6, 7; id. Epod. 16, 60; 17, 16.

2. Ulixés — Walde–Hofmann

Ulixés, -is m. „Odysseus (seit Liv. Andr., Pacuv. usw.; die Form Ulissös ist humanistische Schreibung, s. Novotny Listy filologische 39, 321 FE), Ulixéus, -a, -um (seit Apul): wrschl. nicht il r. nach Kretschmer Einl, 281 und (durch messap, Vermittlung, vgl. Krahe IF. 49, 143, Altheim Epochen 49 nach v. Blumenthal Hesychst. ) f.), sondern kleinasiatisch (Kretschmer Cl. 28, 253 f., derprotochatt. AbEng, Iyd. AlEoc … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Ulixés, p. 1719]

In the wild

Ulixes Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 20.123.12
Ulixi Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.166
Ulixes Statius, Achilleis 1.472
Ulixe Cicero, De Officiis 3.97.p1
Ulixes Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.10.9
Ulixi Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.1.6

6 of 156 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ulixés (scan p. 1719; entry #3301).

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