Euripides' CYCLOPS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Silenus: They are rovers; no man obeys another in anything.

Odysseus: Do they sow Demeter's grain, or on what do they live?

Silenus: On milk and cheese and flesh of sheep.

Odysseus: Have they the drink of Bromius, the juice of the vine?

Silenus: No indeed! and thus it is a joyless land they dwell in.

Odysseus: Are they hospitable and reverent towards strangers?

Silenus: Strangers, they say, supply the daintiest meat.

Odysseus: What, do they delight in killing men and eating them?

Silenus: No one has ever arrived here without being butchered.

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