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Ithaca

noun

A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.

A Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king. Synonym: Ithaki.

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"Ithaca" Quotes from Famous Books

... the inhabitants of Ithaca, N. Y., furnished a pitiful example of this foolhardy spirit. For a year previous to the breaking out of the typhoid epidemic, the public was warned, through the local and the metropolitan press, of the dangerous condition of Ithaca's ...

— The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) • Various

... this feat which we declare to be next to impossible. He actually does convey Odysseus from Troy to Ithaca, by a ten years' voyage too; he actually has narrated that voyage to us in plain straightforward words; and, what is more, he actually has made a superb epic of it. Yes, but when you come to dissect the Odyssey, what amazing artifice is found under that ...

— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch

... Laertes was king of Ithaca and father of Ulysses; Irus, or properly Arnaeus, a beggar who kept watch over Penelope's suitors. Their names are here introduced as typical of the ...

— The Coverley Papers • Various

Words linked to "Ithaca" : Ithaki, Ellas, town, Hellenic Republic, New York State, island, Empire State, New York, NY, Greece