Eumaeus
Contribution by Mary Edmonds
Summary
| Eumaeus is best known for being the swineherd of Ulysses in Homer, which is someone who raises and herds pigs as livestock. He is mentioned in Homer’s The Odyssey as one of the first mortals that Odysseys sees after fighting the trojan war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumaeus |
Dictionary entry
*Eumaeus, Eumaei * (masculine). See entry in Lewis-Short.