I am Sluggeus these are my men. We come from far land and are looking for some food
Any one home
I am so sorry we will be on our way
Can we please have food for the ride home though.
Hi there, Yeah this is my home. But you guys look like a tasty snack
"As we rowed on, and nearer to the mainland, at one end of the bay, we saw a cavern yawing above the water...many rams and goats about the place inside a sheepfold." (Holmer, 1113)
Be quiet he won't see us sneaking out with his hogs
you won't ever get out
"Then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion... innards, flesh, and marrow bone. We cried aloud, lifting our hands to Zeus." (Holmer, 1116)
You might escape me but you shall never pass my ocean friends, have your travels home be horrid
Hurry we must swim away before he kills us
"I dropped and rolled clear of the ram's belly, going this way and that to untie the men." (Holmer, 1121)
"If I am really your son and you claim to be my father come, grant that Odysseus, raider of cities, Laertes' son who makes his home to Ithaca, never reaches home" (Holmer, 1123)