cyclops's

Updated: May 3, 2025

If these were harmed, he would arrive in Ithaca alone, or in the words of the Cyclops's prayer, I in evil plight, with loss of all his company, on board the ship of strangers, to find sorrow in his house. On returning to the Isle Aeaean, Odysseus was warned by Circe of the dangers he would encounter.

Homer - The Odyssey : Done into English prose

Nor would Odysseus have won his lasting glory, for all his ten years wandering among all folks; and despite the visit he paid, he a living man, to inmost Hades, and for all his escape from the murderous Cyclops's cave, unheard too were the names of the swineherd Eumaeus, and of Philoetius, busy with the kine of the herds; yea, and even of Laertes, high of heart; if the songs of the Ionian man had not kept them in renown.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose