The Odyssey Book 12 (Scylla and Charybdis).
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- Only instruct me, goddess, if you will, how, if possible, can I pass Charybdis, or fight off Scylla when she raids my crew?
- Odysseus is asking the goddess Circe advice on how he and his crew can get past Charybdis and Scylla safely.
- Must you have battle in your heart forever? The bloody toil of combat? Old contender, will you not yield to the immortal gods? That nightmare cannot die, being eternal evil itself-horror, and pain, and chaos; there is no fighting her, no power can fight her, all that avails is fight.
- Circe warns Odysseus that he and his crew are incapable of getting by unscathed and that trying to fight would make things worse.
- Lose headway there along that rock-face while you break out arms, and she'll swoop over you, I fear, once more, taking one more man again for every gullet. No, no, put all your backs into it, row on; invoke Blind Force, that bore this scourge of men, to keep her from a second strike against you.
- Circe is telling Odysseus what he needs to do so he doesn't end up endangering all of his crew.
- Odysseus is trying to calm down his crew and encouraging them to be more brave and motivating them to keep rowing the boat.
- Friends, have we never been in danger before this? More fearsome, is it now, then when the Cyclops penned us in his cave? What power he had! Did I not keep my nerve, and use my wits to find a way out for us? Now I say by hook or crook this peril shall be something that we remember. Heads up lads! We must obey the orders as I give them.
- Odysseus is instructive his crew as best he can so he can get them away from Charybdis.
- Get the oar-shafts in you hands, and lay back hard on your benches; hit these breaking seas. Zeus help us pull away before we founder. You at the tiller, listen, and take in all that I say - the rudders are your duty; keep her out of the combers and the smoke; steer for that headland; watch the drift, or we fetch up in the smother, and you drown us.
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