A.Odysseus, king of Ithaca, hero of the Odyssey : in Hom. also Ὀδυ^σεύς ; gen. “Ὀδυ^σεῦς” Od.24.398 ; acc. Ὀδυσσέα (last syll. short before a vowel) 17.301 ; Ὀδυσσέα (^__) S.Aj.104, “Ὀδυσσῆ” Pi. N.8.26, “Ὀδυσσῆα” Od.5.149, “Ὀδυ^σῆα” 1.74,83,al.: Οὑδυσσεύς, crasis for ὁ Ὀδ., S.Ph.572 : pl., “Ὀδυσσέας” E.Rh.866.—On the mythic etym. of the name in Hom., v. ὀδύσσομαι :—Adj. Ὀδύσσειος , α, ον, Tz.ad Lyc.1030, etc. ; Ὀδύσσεια , τά, games in honour of Odysseus, Schwyzer 434.16 (Magn. Mae., iii B. C.) ; Ὀδύσσειον , τό, temple of Odysseus, ib.2 ; Ep. Ὀδυ^σήϊος Od.18.353.
Ὀδυσσ-εύς , έως, Ion. -ῆος, ὁ (also Οὐλιξεύς Hdn. Gr.1.14, Οὐλίξης prob. in Ibyc. ap. Diom.p.321 K., Ὀλυσεύς , Ὀλυσσεύς , Ὀλυτεύς , Ὀλυττεύς , Ὀλισεύς , Ὠλυσσεύς Kretschmer Griech.Vaseninschr.pp.146,147, al.; cf. Ὀλισσεῖδαι , οἱ, a φάτρα (q. v.) at Thebes and Argos, prob. in IG7.3659, Mnemos.43.372, 47.164) :—
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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