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  1. In the Arabian Nights, a man who compels
  2. strangers to carry him until they drop,
  3. encountered by Sinbad the Sailor on his fifth
  4. voyage. Sinbad escapes by getting him drunk.
  5. The Old Man of the Sea is also used in Greek
  6. mythology to describe Proteus, an attendant
  7. of the sea god Poseidon.
  8.