person

Ulysses

also: Ulixes, Vlixes, Odysseus

The Homeric hero Odysseus (Latin Ulysses), proverbial for cunning and for a long delayed homecoming. In Fam. 1.10 Cicero jokes that Valerius, like Ulysses returning to Ithaca, will recognize none of his own if he lingers in Apulia.

Reading notes

Ad Familiares 1.10 §1 you, like Ulysses, will recognize none of your own
An allusion to Odysseus's return to Ithaca after twenty years, when his home and people had changed beyond recognition. Cicero jokingly warns Valerius that if he buries himself in rural Apulia he will become a stranger to his Roman friends.
On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.49 This is how they call to Ulysses
Ulysses (Odysseus) is the Homeric hero who sailed past the Sirens bound to his mast. Cicero quotes his own Latin verse rendering of the Sirens' song from Odyssey 12.
On Duties §1.113 How much Ulysses endured in that long wandering
Ulysses (Odysseus), who in Homer's Odyssey suffered humiliations and concealed his feelings to win his homecoming. Cicero contrasts his adaptable patience with the rigid pride of Ajax, to show that different natures fit different conduct.
Tusculan Disputations §2.49 in Sophocles Ulysses laments quite tearfully
Ulysses (Greek Odysseus), wounded and dying in the lost Sophoclean play that Pacuvius's Niptra adapted. Cicero contrasts Sophocles' weeping Ulysses unfavorably with Pacuvius's more restrained hero.