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1 '"'Stranger,' said she, 'I will make it all quite clear to you.'
2 '"'The third man,' he answered, 'is Ulysses who dwells in Ithaca.'
3 '"'Stranger,' replied she, 'I will make it all quite clear to you.'
4 Be so kind,' he said, 'as to give me some more, and tell me your name at once.
5 '"'Sir,' he answered with a groan, 'it was all bad luck, and my own unspeakable drunkenness.'
6 '"'You know that yourself, old man,' I answered, 'you will gain nothing by trying to put me off.'
7 Circe,' said I, 'please to keep the promise you made me about furthering me on my homeward voyage.
8 '"'Cyclops,' said I, 'you should have taken better measure of your man before eating up his comrades in your cave.'
9 To this he gave me but a pitiless answer, 'Stranger,' said he, 'you are a fool, or else you know nothing of this country.'
10 Bless my heart,' would one turn to his neighbour, saying, 'how this man gets honoured and makes friends to whatever city or country he may go.
11 '"'You will want no guide,' she answered; 'raise your mast, set your white sails, sit quite still, and the North Wind will blow you there of itself.'
12 '"'We went,' said he, 'as you told us, through the forest, and in the middle of it there was a fine house built with cut stones in a place that could be seen from far.'
13 'Look here, Cyclops, said I, you have been eating a great deal of man's flesh, so take this and drink some wine, that you may see what kind of liquor we had on board my ship.
14 '"'Let me tell you,' said I, 'whichever of the goddesses you may happen to be, that I am not staying here of my own accord, but must have offended the gods that live in heaven.'
15 As soon as he had done so he shouted, and cried 'Shoo, shoo,' after his sheep to drive them on to the mountain; so I was left to scheme some way of taking my revenge and covering myself with glory.
16 He said this to draw me out, but I was too cunning to be caught in that way, so I answered with a lie; 'Neptune,' said I, 'sent my ship on to the rocks at the far end of your country, and wrecked it.'
17 '"Then,' he said, 'if you would finish your voyage and get home quickly, you must offer sacrifices to Jove and to the rest of the gods before embarking; for it is decreed that you shall not get back to your friends, and to your own house, till you have returned to the heaven-fed stream of Egypt, and offered holy hecatombs to the immortal gods that reign in heaven.'
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