Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

Outis

(Greek, nobody). A name assumed by Odysseus in the cave of Polyphemos. When the monster roared with the pain from the loss of his eye, his brother giants demanded from a distance who was hurting him:

“Nobody,” thundered out Polyphemos, and his companions went their way. Odysseus in Latin is Ulysses.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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