Cyclops
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- Across the bay from the land of the Cyclopes is a lush, deserted island. Odysseus and his crew land on the island in a dense fog and spend days feasting on wine and wild goats and observing the mainland, where the Cyclopes live
- On the third day, Odysseus and his company of men set out to learn if the Cyclopes are friends or foes.
- he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, . Now I chopped out a six-foot section of this pole and set it down before my men, who scraped it; and when they had it smooth, in the fire s heart and turned it, toughening it
- The pike of olive, green though it had been, reddened and glowed as if about to catch.I drew it from the coals and my four fellows gave me a hand, lugging it near the Cyclops as more than natural force nerved them; straightforward they sprinted, lifted it, and rammed it deep in his crater eye, and I leaned on it turning it as a shipwright turns a drill in planking,
- Blinded, and sick with pain from his head wound, the master stroked each ram, then let it pass, but my men riding on the pectoral fleece the giant’s blind hands blundering never found.
- Now he laid hands upon a bigger stone and wheeled around, titanic for the cast, to let it fly in the black-prowed vessel's track.
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