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ˈIthacan

/ ˈɪθəkən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Greek island of Ithaca or its inhabitants


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Ithaca

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Example Sentences

Scarcely at last, at the loud urgence of the Ithacan, he breaks into speech as was planned, and appoints me for the altar.

He answered that he was an Ithacan, his name Achæmenides, and that he had been one of the companions of Ulysses in his wanderings.

It was upon this occasion that the Ithacan king told the story of the serpent devouring the birds at Aulis, as already related.

Then Helenus told the Ithacan chief that before Troy could be taken three things must be done.

Ten year elapsed after the end of the great war before he reached his Ithacan home.

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