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