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La⋅er⋅tes

  [ley-ur-teez, -air-]
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–noun Classical Mythology.
the father of Odysseus.
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Laertes 
king of Ithaca, father of Odysseus, Gk., lit. "gatherer of the people," from laos "people" + eirein "to fasten together."
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