All 11 Uses
i.e.
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
(Edited)
- Endnote 5: i.e. "with a current in it"—see illustrations and map near the end of bks.
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- Endnote 19: i.e. you have money, and could pay when I got judgment, whereas the suitors are men of straw.
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- Endnote 21: i.e. in the outer court, and in the uncovered part of the inner house.
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- Endnote 26: i.e. skewers, either single, double, or even five pronged.
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- I may remind English readers that [Greek] (i.e. phoca) means "seal."
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- Endnote 54: The reader will note that the river was flowing with salt water i.e. that it was tidal.
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- Endnote 136: This harbour is again evidently the harbour in which Ulysses had landed, i.e. the harbour that is now the salt works of S. Cusumano.
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- Endnote 140: i.e. to be milked, as in South Italian and Sicilian towns at the present day.
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- Endnote 149: i.e. the doorway leading from the inner to the outer court.
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- Endnote 164: i.e. the door that led into the body of the house.
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- Endnote 170: i.e. the pavement on which Ulysses was standing.
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Definitions:
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(1)
(i.e.) that is to say; or in other words
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, i.e. can refer to someone's initials.