§9.287ὣς ἐφάμην, ὁ δέ μʼ οὐδὲν ἀμείβετο νηλέι θυμῷ, §9.288ἀλλʼ ὅ γʼ ἀναΐξας ἑτάροις ἐπὶ χεῖρας ἴαλλε, §9.289σὺν δὲ δύω μάρψας ὥς τε σκύλακας ποτὶ γαίῃ §9.290κόπτʼ· ἐκ δʼ ἐγκέφαλος χαμάδις ῥέε, δεῦε δὲ γαῖαν.
So I spoke, and he straightway answered me nothing with pitiless heart, but leaping up, he laid hands upon my companions, snatching two together, like puppies against the ground he dashed them; and the brain flowed out upon the ground, and wet the earth.
§9.291τοὺς δὲ διὰ μελεϊστὶ ταμὼν ὡπλίσσατο δόρπον· §9.292ἤσθιε δʼ ὥς τε λέων ὀρεσίτροφος, οὐδʼ ἀπέλειπεν, §9.293ἔγκατά τε σάρκας τε καὶ ὀστέα μυελόεντα.
And cutting them limb by limb, he prepared his supper; and he ate like a mountain-bred lion, and left nothing, both the entrails and the flesh and the marrowy bones.
§9.294ἡμεῖς δὲ κλαίοντες ἀνεσχέθομεν Διὶ χεῖρας, §9.295σχέτλια ἔργʼ ὁρόωντες, ἀμηχανίη δʼ ἔχε θυμόν.
And we, weeping, lifted up our hands to Zeus, beholding the cruel deeds, and helplessness possessed our heart.
§9.296αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ Κύκλωψ μεγάλην ἐμπλήσατο νηδὺν §9.297ἀνδρόμεα κρέʼ ἔδων καὶ ἐπʼ ἄκρητον γάλα πίνων, §9.298κεῖτʼ ἔντοσθʼ ἄντροιο τανυσσάμενος διὰ μήλων.
But when the Cyclops had filled his great belly, eating human flesh and drinking unmixed milk after it, he lay down inside the cave, stretching himself out among the sheep.
§9.299τὸν μὲν ἐγὼ βούλευσα κατὰ μεγαλήτορα θυμὸν §9.300ἆσσον ἰών, ξίφος ὀξὺ ἐρυσσάμενος παρὰ μηροῦ, §9.301οὐτάμεναι πρὸς στῆθος, ὅθι φρένες ἧπαρ ἔχουσι, §9.302χείρʼ ἐπιμασσάμενος· ἕτερος δέ με θυμὸς ἔρυκεν.
Him indeed I planned in my great-hearted soul to go near, drawing my sharp sword from beside my thigh, and stab him in the chest where the midriff holds the liver, groping with my hand; but another heart withheld me.
§9.303αὐτοῦ γάρ κε καὶ ἄμμες ἀπωλόμεθʼ αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον· §9.304οὐ γάρ κεν δυνάμεσθα θυράων ὑψηλάων §9.305χερσὶν ἀπώσασθαι λίθον ὄβριμον, ὃν προσέθηκεν.
For there indeed we too should have perished in sheer destruction; for we should not have been able from the lofty doorway to push away with our hands the mighty stone which he had set there.
§9.306ὣς τότε μὲν στενάχοντες ἐμείναμεν Ἠῶ δῖαν.
So then indeed, groaning, we awaited the bright Dawn.
§9.307ἦμος δʼ ἠριγένεια φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς, §9.308καὶ τότε πῦρ ἀνέκαιε καὶ ἤμελγε κλυτὰ μῆλα, §9.309πάντα κατὰ μοῖραν, καὶ ὑπʼ ἔμβρυον ἧκεν ἑκάστῃ.
But when early-born, rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, then indeed also he kindled the fire and milked his wondrous flocks, all in due order, and under each he put its young.
§9.310αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ σπεῦσε πονησάμενος τὰ ἃ ἔργα, §9.311σὺν δʼ ὅ γε δὴ αὖτε δύω μάρψας ὡπλίσσατο δεῖπνον.
But when indeed he had busily finished his tasks, then seizing two together again, he prepared his meal.
§9.312δειπνήσας δʼ ἄντρου ἐξήλασε πίονα μῆλα, §9.313ῥηιδίως ἀφελὼν θυρεὸν μέγαν· αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα §9.314ἂψ ἐπέθηχʼ, ὡς εἴ τε φαρέτρῃ πῶμʼ ἐπιθείη.
And having dined, he drove the fat flocks out of the cave, easily removing the great door-stone; but then he put it back again, as if one would put a lid on a quiver.
§9.315πολλῇ δὲ ῥοίζῳ πρὸς ὄρος τρέπε πίονα μῆλα §9.316Κύκλωψ· αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ λιπόμην κακὰ βυσσοδομεύων, §9.317εἴ πως τισαίμην, δοίη δέ μοι εὖχος Ἀθήνη.
And with a loud whistling the Cyclops turned the fat flocks toward the mountain; but I was left behind, brooding deep-seated evils, if by any means I might take vengeance, and Athena might grant me glory.
§9.318ἥδε δέ μοι κατὰ θυμὸν ἀρίστη φαίνετο βουλή.
And this seemed to me in my heart the best plan.
§9.319Κύκλωπος γὰρ ἔκειτο μέγα ῥόπαλον παρὰ σηκῷ, §9.320χλωρὸν ἐλαΐνεον· τὸ μὲν ἔκταμεν, ὄφρα φοροίη §9.321αὐανθέν.
For beside the pen lay a great club of the Cyclops, green, of olive-wood, which he had cut so that he might carry it when dried.
τὸ μὲν ἄμμες ἐίσκομεν εἰσορόωντες §9.322ὅσσον θʼ ἱστὸν νηὸς ἐεικοσόροιο μελαίνης, §9.323φορτίδος εὐρείης, ἥ τʼ ἐκπεράᾳ μέγα λαῖτμα· §9.324τόσσον ἔην μῆκος, τόσσον πάχος εἰσοράασθαι.
Looking upon it, we likened it to as great as the mast of a black ship of twenty oars, a broad merchantman which crosses the great gulf; so great was its length and so great its thickness to look upon.
§9.325τοῦ μὲν ὅσον τʼ ὄργυιαν ἐγὼν ἀπέκοψα παραστὰς §9.326καὶ παρέθηχʼ ἑτάροισιν, ἀποξῦναι δʼ ἐκέλευσα· §9.327οἱ δʼ ὁμαλὸν ποίησαν· ἐγὼ δʼ ἐθόωσα παραστὰς §9.328ἄκρον, ἄφαρ δὲ λαβὼν ἐπυράκτεον ἐν πυρὶ κηλέῳ.
Standing by it, I cut off as much as a fathom and set it before my companions, and ordered them to scrape it smooth; and they made it smooth, while I, standing by, sharpened the point, and straightway taking it, hardened it in the burning fire.
§9.329καὶ τὸ μὲν εὖ κατέθηκα κατακρύψας ὑπὸ κόπρῳ, §9.330ἥ ῥα κατὰ σπείους κέχυτο μεγάλʼ ἤλιθα πολλή·
And this indeed I laid away carefully, hiding it under the dung, which was strewn throughout the cave in great abundance.
§9.331αὐτὰρ τοὺς ἄλλους κλήρῳ πεπαλάσθαι ἄνωγον, §9.332ὅς τις τολμήσειεν ἐμοὶ σὺν μοχλὸν ἀείρας §9.333τρῖψαι ἐν ὀφθαλμῷ, ὅτε τὸν γλυκὺς ὕπνος ἱκάνοι.
But the others I ordered to cast lots, who would dare to lift the bar together with me and grind it in his eye when sweet sleep should come upon him.
§9.334οἱ δʼ ἔλαχον τοὺς ἄν κε καὶ ἤθελον αὐτὸς ἑλέσθαι, §9.335τέσσαρες, αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ πέμπτος μετὰ τοῖσιν ἐλέγμην.
And they drew the lot, those whom indeed I myself would have wished to choose, four, and I myself was numbered among them as the fifth.
§9.336ἑσπέριος δʼ ἦλθεν καλλίτριχα μῆλα νομεύων.
And in the evening he came, shepherding his fair-fleeced flocks.
§9.337αὐτίκα δʼ εἰς εὐρὺ σπέος ἤλασε πίονα μῆλα §9.338πάντα μάλʼ, οὐδέ τι λεῖπε βαθείης ἔκτοθεν αὐλῆς, §9.339ἤ τι ὀισάμενος, ἢ καὶ θεὸς ὣς ἐκέλευσεν.
And straightway he drove the fat flocks into the wide cave, indeed all of them, and left not anything outside the deep yard, whether foreboding something, or indeed because some god so ordered.
§9.340αὐτὰρ ἔπειτʼ ἐπέθηκε θυρεὸν μέγαν ὑψόσʼ ἀείρας, §9.341ἑζόμενος δʼ ἤμελγεν ὄις καὶ μηκάδας αἶγας, §9.342πάντα κατὰ μοῖραν, καὶ ὑπʼ ἔμβρυον ἧκεν ἑκάστῃ.
But then he put the great door-stone in place, lifting it high, and sitting down, he milked the sheep and bleating goats, all in due order, and under each he put its young.
§9.343αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ σπεῦσε πονησάμενος τὰ ἃ ἔργα, §9.344σὺν δʼ ὅ γε δὴ αὖτε δύω μάρψας ὡπλίσσατο δόρπον.
But when indeed he had busily finished his tasks, then seizing two together again, he prepared his supper.
§9.345καὶ τότʼ ἐγὼ Κύκλωπα προσηύδων ἄγχι παραστάς, §9.346κισσύβιον μετὰ χερσὶν ἔχων μέλανος οἴνοιο· §9.347Κύκλωψ, τῆ, πίε οἶνον, ἐπεὶ φάγες ἀνδρόμεα κρέα, §9.348ὄφρʼ εἰδῇς οἷόν τι ποτὸν τόδε νηῦς ἐκεκεύθει §9.349ἡμετέρη.
And then indeed I addressed the Cyclops, standing close by, holding in my hands an ivy-wood bowl of dark wine: "Cyclops, take, drink wine, since you have eaten human flesh, so that you may know what kind of drink this is our ship contained.
σοὶ δʼ αὖ λοιβὴν φέρον, εἴ μʼ ἐλεήσας §9.350οἴκαδε πέμψειας· σὺ δὲ μαίνεαι οὐκέτʼ ἀνεκτῶς.
And to you indeed I brought it as a libation, if pitying me you might send me home; but you rage no longer tolerably.
§9.351σχέτλιε, πῶς κέν τίς σε καὶ ὕστερον ἄλλος ἵκοιτο §9.352ἀνθρώπων πολέων, ἐπεὶ οὐ κατὰ μοῖραν ἔρεξας; §9.353ὣς ἐφάμην, ὁ δʼ ἔδεκτο καὶ ἔκπιεν· ἥσατο δʼ αἰνῶς §9.354ἡδὺ ποτὸν πίνων καὶ μʼ ᾔτεε δεύτερον αὖτις·
Cruel one, how indeed would any other come to you hereafter of many men, since you have not acted rightly?" So I spoke, and he received it and drank it off, and was terribly pleased drinking the sweet drink, and asked me again for a second time.