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Դü

[ al-sin-oh-uhs ]

noun

  1. king of the Phaeacians and father of ܲä and Laodamas.


Դü

/ æˈɪəʊə /

noun

  1. (in Homer's Odyssey ) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings See also ܲä
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Their king, Դü, was a good, sensible man who knew that his wife Acrete was a great deal wiser than he and always let her decide anything important for him.

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Justin and Augustine may look upon the garden of the Hesperides or the garden of Դü as a reminiscence of Paradise; Strabo may assign them an exact position on the coast of Libya; and both may be right.

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There Nausicaa finds him and brings him to her father Դü, by whom he is hospitably entertained, and at last sent back to Ithaca, his home.

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In the halls of Դü the wanderer tells what happened to him before he reached the cave of Calypso, and in this narrative we follow him to the island of the Lotus-eaters, to the island of the Cyclops, thence to the house of Circe, and from there to the very borders of hell itself.

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Our Ulysses finds himself in the gardens of Alcinous: our truant is fairly caught.

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