Nausicaa
Nausĭcăa, ae, and Nausĭcăē, ēs, f., = Ναυσικάα,
- the daughter of Alcinoüs, king of the Phaeacians: virgo Nausicaa, Gell. 9, 9, 14; cf. Aus. Per. Odyss. 6; Hyg. Fab. 125 sq.: Nausicaë patrii horti, Mart. 12, 31, 9.
Nausicaa, ae, f. u. Nausica, ae, f. (Ναυσικάα), Tochter des Alkinous, des Königs der Phäaken, Form -caa, Gell. 9, 9, 14. Mart. 12, 31, 8. Hyg. fab. 125 sq.: Form -ca, Dict. 6, 6.
Nausĭcăa, æ, f. Gell. (Ναυσικάα) et Nausicăē, ēs, f. , Mart. Nausicaa [fille dʼAlcinoüs, roi des Phéaciens ; accueillit Ulysse naufragé] : Mart. 12, 31, 8 ; Gell. 9, 9, 14.
Nausi'caa
(Ναυσικάα), the daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians and Arete, became the friend of Odysseus (Hom. Od. 6.16, &c.; comp. Odysseus). Later writers represent her as the wife of Telemachus, by whom she is said to have become the mother of Perseptolis or Ptoliporthus. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1796; Dict. Cret. 6.6.) [L.S]
Nausicăa
(Ναυσικάα). A daughter of Alcinoüs, king of the Phaeacians, and Areté, who conducted Odysseus to the court of her father when he was shipwrecked on the coast of Scheria. The passages in which Nausicaa is introduced are among the most pleasing and graceful of any in Homer. See Od.bks. vi., vii., viii.
Nausicaa
Nausicaa, daughter of Alcinous
- king of the Phaeacians, brings Odysseus to her father: Apollod. E.7.21
- represented in mule-car: Paus. 5.19.9
- Nausicaa and Odysseus, painting by Polygnotus: Paus. 1.22.6