Euripides' CYCLOPS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Leader: 'Tis laid; be thy throat only ready.

Cyclops: Are, the bowls too full of milk?

Leader: Aye, so that thou canst swill off a whole hogshead, so it
please thee.

Cyclops: Sheep's milk or cows' milk or a mixture of both?

Leader: Whichever thou wilt; don't swallow me, that's all.

Cyclops: Not I; for you would start kicking in the pit of my stomach
and kill me by your antics. (Catching sight Of Odysseus and his followers)
Ha! what is this crowd I see near the folds? Some pirates or robbers
have put in here. (Silenus comes out of the cave. He has made himself
appear as though he had just suffered a terrible beating.) Yes, I
really see the lambs from my caves tied up there with twisted osiers,
cheese-presses scattered about, and old Silenus with his bald pate
all swollen with blows.

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