![]() To appease Helios, Zeus sends down a thunderbolt to sink Odysseus’ ship. This disobedience angers the sun god, who threatens to stop shining if payment is not made for the loss of his cattle. Driven by hunger, they ignore Odysseus’ warning not to feast on Helios’ cattle. ![]() The Rocks were now behind Charybdis, too, 205 and Scylla dropped astern.” Odysseus tries to persuade his men to bypass Thrinacia, the island of the sun god, Helios, but they insist on landing. ![]() She ate them as they shrieked there, in her den, 200 in the dire grapple, reaching still for me- and deathly pity ran me through at that sight-far the worst I ever suffered, questing the passes of the strange sea. A man surfcasting on a point of rock so these for bass or mackerel, whipping his long rod 195 to drop the sinker and the bait far out, will hook a fish and rip it from the surface to dangle wriggling through the air: were borne aloft in spasms toward the cliff. in anguish, calling my name for the last time. 16th-century painting differ from I happened to glance aft at ship and oarsmen the one on page 1231? Be specific in 190 and caught sight of their arms and legs, dangling describing the differences in style high overhead. Apart from depicting a different Then Scylla made her strike, narrative moment, how does this whisking six of my best men from the ship. were fixed upon that yawning mouth in fear 200 grapple: grasp. 198 borne aloft in spasms: lifted 185 My men all blanched against the gloom, our eyes high while struggling violently. the rock bellowing all around, and dark sand raged on the bottom far below. But when she swallowed the sea water down we saw the funnel of the maelstrom, heard 189 aft: toward the rear of the ship. 180 soared to the landside heights, and fell like rain. The shot spume 179 shot spume: flying foam. v the wanderings of odysseus: book 12 1235 By heaven! when she vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron seething over intense fire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises. And all this time, in travail, sobbing, gaining on the current, we rowed into the strait-Scylla to port 175 and on our starboard beam Charybdis, dire gorge of the salt sea tide. I strained my eyes upon that cliffside veiled in cloud, but nowhere could I catch sight of her. 165 bidding against arms had slipped my mind, so I tied on my cuirass and took up two heavy spears, then made my way along to the foredeck-thinking to see her first from there, the monster of the gray rock, harboring 170 torment for my friends. Do you think he is a good leader? Explain your opinion. They would have dropped their oars again, in panic, Consider Odysseus’ behavior in lines to roll for cover under the decking. But as I sent them on toward Scylla, I v EPIC HERO told them nothing, as they could do nothing. 160 That was all, and it brought them round to action. painful effort fetch up in the smother, and you drown us.’ 176 gorge: throat gullet. keep her out of the combers and the smoke steer for that headland watch the drift, or we travail (trE-vAlP) n. smother: keep the 155 You at the tiller, listen, and take in ship on course, or it will be crushed in all that I say-the rudders are your duty the rough water. Zeus help us pull away before we founder. Get the oarshafts in your hands, and lay back hard on your benches hit these breaking seas. What does it seem to mean in line 149? Heads up, lads! We must obey the orders as I give them. Well, I walked up and down from bow to stern, trying to put heart into them, standing over every oarsman, saying gently, ‘Friends, RL 4 have we never been in danger before this? 145 More fearsome, is it now, than when the Cyclops Language Coach penned us in his cave? What power he had! Did I not keep my nerve, and use my wits Idioms The idiom, or stock phrase, to find a way out for us? “by hook or by crook” may have originally referred to the practice Now I say of gathering firewood from dead by hook or crook this peril too shall be tree branches using hooks or crooks 150 something that we remember.
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