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Ulysses
(3 syl.), King of Ithaca, a small rocky island of Greece. He is
represented in Homer's Iliad as full of artifices, and,
according to Virgil, hit upon the device of the wooden horse, by which
Troy was ultimately taken. (The word means The Angry or Wrathful.)
After the fall of Troy, Ulysses was driven about by tempests for ten
years before he reached home, and his adventures form the subject of
Homer's other epic, called the Odyssey.
Ulysses. When Palamedes summoned Ulysses to the Trojan war, he found
him in a field ploughing with a
team of strange animals, and sowing salt instead of barley. This he
did to feign insanity, that he might be excused from the expedition.
The incident is employed to show what meagre shifts are sometimes
resorted to to shufile out of plain duties.
Ulysses
(The). Albert III., Margrave of Brandenburg. He was also
called “The Achilles ” (q.v.). (1414-1486.)
The Ulysses of the Highlands.
Sir Evan Cameron, lord of Lochiel, surnamed “The Black.” (Died
1719.) His son Donald was called “The Gentle Lochiel.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Ulysses from Infoplease:
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