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Polyphemus kills two of Odysseus's finest warriors with ease

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  1. Not a word in reply to that, the ruthless brute.
  2. Lurching up, he lunged out with his hands toward my men
  3. and snatching two at once, rapping them on the ground
  4. he knocked them dead like pups —
  5. their brains gushed out all over, soaked the floor —
  6. and ripping them limb from limb to fix his meal
  7. he bolted them down like a mountain-lion, left no scrap,
  8. devoured entrails, flesh and bones, marrow and all!
  9. We flung our arms to Zeus, we wept and cried aloud,
  10. looking on at his grisly work—paralyzed, appalled.
  11. But once the Cyclops had stuffed his enormous gut
  12. with human flesh, washing it down with raw milk,
  13. he slept in his cave, stretched out along his flocks.
  14.  
  15. The Odyssey, Book 9, Translated by Robert Fagles.
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