“ Six benches were left empty in every shipthat evening when we pulled away from death.”
“ those who ate this honeyed plant, the Lotus, never cared to report, nor to return:they longed to stay forever, browsing onthat native bloom, forgetful of their homeland.”
“When all these chores were done, he poked the fire, heaping on brushwood. In the glare he saw us.”
“ In a smithy one sees a white-hot axehead or an adzeplunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam— the way they make soft iron hale and hard—:just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.”
“ the master stroked each ram, then let it pass,but my men riding on the pectoral fleecethe giant’s blind hands blundering never found.”
“At this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed Poseidon”
