“My name is Nobody.”

—  Homér , The Odyssey (Cowper)

IX. 366 (tr. Robert Fagles); Odysseus to Polyphemus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Variant: Nobody—that's my name.
Source: The Odyssey

Original

Οὖτις ἐμοί γ' ὄνομα.

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