Euripides' CYCLOPS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Silenus: Why, that would not give me so much as a mouthful.

Odysseus: This, and twice as much again as will run from the skin.

Silenus: Fair the rill thou speakest of, delicious to me.

Odysseus: Shall I let thee taste the wine unmixed, to start with?

Silenus: A reasonable offer; for of a truth a taste invites the purchase.

Odysseus: Well, I haul about a cup as well as the skin.

Silenus: Come, let it gurgle in, that I may revive my memory by a
pull at it.

Odysseus: (pouring) There then!

Silenus: (smelling it) Ye gods! what a delicious scent it has!

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