A suitor from Same on Cephallenia in Homer, named both among the twenty-three wooers from Same and among the twelve from Ithaca itself in Apollodorus' island rolls — trusting in boundless wealth, set on lawlessness, who cast an ox's hoof at the disguised Odysseus and grazed Eumaeus with a spear before he fell in the final fight.1
Among the haughty wooers Homer names Ctesippus as a man with his heart set on lawlessness, whose dwelling was in Same. Trusting in his boundless wealth, he wooed the wife of long-absent Odysseus and spoke among the proud suitors with insolence.2
He hurled an ox's hoof at the stranger's head; Odysseus turned his head aside and smiled a grim smile while the hoof struck the well-built wall. Telemachus rebuked him sharply, saying the blow had profited Ctesippus' soul rather than harmed the guest — for had the missile struck, Telemachus would have run him through with his spear.3
In the last spear-cast of the mnesterophonia, Ctesippus grazed Eumaeus' shoulder above his shield before Odysseus and his company hurled their sharp spears into the throng of wooers.4
Apollodorus names Ctesippus among the twenty-three wooers from Same in Epitome 7.28 — listed after Pisander and before Hippodochus — and again among the twelve suitors from Ithaca itself in Epitome 7.30, while Homer knows him only at Same.5
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