cyclops scene
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- We beached there, and I told the crew to stand by and keep watch over the ship;as for myself I took my twelve best fightersand went ahead. I had a goatskin fullof that sweet liquor that Euanthes son,Maron, had given me.
- Neither reply nor pity came from him, but in one stride he clutched at my companions and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies to beat their brains out, spattering the floor.
- Cyclops try some wine. Here s liquor to wash down your scraps of men. Taste it, and see the kind of drink we carried under our planks. I meant it for an offering if you would help us home.,
- Now, by the gods, I drove my big hand spikedeep in the embers, charring it again,and cheered my men along with battle talkto keep their courage up: no quitting now.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 fellowsgave me a hand, lugging it near the Cyclopsas more than natural force nerved them; straightforward they sprinted, lifted it, and rammed itdeep in his crater eye, and I leaned on itturning it as a shipwright turns a drillin planking, having men below to swingthe two-handled strap that spins it in the groove.So with our brand we bored that great eye socketwhile blood ran out around the red hot bar.Eyelid and lash were seared; the pierced ballhissed broiling, and the roots popped.
- I tied them silently together, twiningcords of willow from the ogre’s bed;then slung a man under each middle oneto ride there safely, shielded left and right.So three sheep could convey each man. I tookthe woolliest ram, the choicest of the flock,and hung myself under his kinky belly,pulled up tight, with fingers twisted deepin sheepskin ringlets for an iron grip.So, breathing hard, we waited until morning.
- The blind thing in his doubled fury brokea hilltop in his hands and heaved it after us.Ahead of our black prow it struck and sankwhelmed in a spuming geyser, a giant wavethat washed the ship stern foremost back to shore.
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