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Ulysses
May 16, 2007 | Filed under: Latin Fun

Original Author: Unknown
Copyright: A Latin Unseen Course: B.W.M.

Ulysses pretends to be mad, but does not deceive Palamedes.

“Ulixes, vir summi ingenii, qui princeps erat Ithacae, multa et fortia ante muros Troiae agebat; primum tamen ad bellum ire nolebat, sociosque, qui auxilii petendi causa Ithacam venerunt, dicipere constituit. Itaque, simulans se insanum esse neque amicorum meminisse, arare harenam salemque serere coepit. Sed inter socios erat Palamedes, qui omnium artium erat peritus: hic Ulixem fraudis accusavit et, ut hoc confirmaret, Telemachum, parvum filium Ulixis, humi ante aratrum posuit. Tum Ulixes, aratrum sistere coactus, ne filium occideret, partes insani agere desivit: neque enim est insani de re tali providere.”

Ulysses, a man of the greatest ability, who was the prince of Ithaca, achieved many great things before the walls of Troy. However, at first the did not want to go to war, he decided to deceive the allies who came to Ithaca for the sake of seeking help. And so, pretending that he was insane, and that he did not remember his friends, he begins to plough and to sew sand and salt. But among the allies was Palamedes, who was skilled in all of the arts: He accused Ulysses of fraud and, in order to prove this, he placed Telemachus, the small son of Ulysses, on the ground before the plough. Then Ulysses, forced to stop the plough lest he kill his son, he stopped playing the part of an insane man.


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