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As the conclusion of the Odyssey has been reputed spu-
rious, and indeed the conduct of the relations of the suitors
would have been unaccountable had they remained con-
tented under the government of Ulysses, after the vengeance
which he had taken upon the chiefs of the first families,
so the ancients have delivered the following history of the
events which succeeded. Neoptolcmus* was chosen by
the contending parties to decide on the fate of Ulysses. By
his decision Ulysses was banished for life from Ithaca, Ce-
phallonia, and Zante, while the families of the suitors were
to pay an annual tribute, to make compensation for the
outrages which had been committed. Ulysses retired to
Italy, and Telemachus succeeded to the throne. The tri-
bute consisted in corn, wine, honey, oil, salt, and Iambs.
However Ulysses might have suffered in his voyages, or
from the faction which opposed his return to Ithaca, yet we
find him deified in succeeding ages. He is said to have de-
livered oracles at a place called Eurys in iEtolia, and He-
liodorus,* author of the iEthiopics, who lived in the fourth
1 Plutarch. Qu. Grte.
1 iEtbiopics. Lib. 5. cap. 239. Calasiris sees Ulysses in a dream, his
head covered with a cap, as represented in the coin. Ulysses threatens him
As the conclusion of the Odyssey has been reputed spu-
rious, and indeed the conduct of the relations of the suitors
would have been unaccountable had they remained con-
tented under the government of Ulysses, after the vengeance
which he had taken upon the chiefs of the first families,
so the ancients have delivered the following history of the
events which succeeded. Neoptolcmus* was chosen by
the contending parties to decide on the fate of Ulysses. By
his decision Ulysses was banished for life from Ithaca, Ce-
phallonia, and Zante, while the families of the suitors were
to pay an annual tribute, to make compensation for the
outrages which had been committed. Ulysses retired to
Italy, and Telemachus succeeded to the throne. The tri-
bute consisted in corn, wine, honey, oil, salt, and Iambs.
However Ulysses might have suffered in his voyages, or
from the faction which opposed his return to Ithaca, yet we
find him deified in succeeding ages. He is said to have de-
livered oracles at a place called Eurys in iEtolia, and He-
liodorus,* author of the iEthiopics, who lived in the fourth
1 Plutarch. Qu. Grte.
1 iEtbiopics. Lib. 5. cap. 239. Calasiris sees Ulysses in a dream, his
head covered with a cap, as represented in the coin. Ulysses threatens him