Cyclops: (attempting to carry him into the cave) To be sure, Ganymede
whom I am carrying off from the halls of Dardanus.
Silenus: I am undone, my children; outrageous treatment waits me.
Leader of the Chorus: Dost find fault with thy lover? dost scorn him
in his cups?
Silenus: Woe is me! most bitter shall I find the wine ere long. (Silenus
is dragged into the cave by the Cyclops.)
Odysseus: Up now, children of Dionysus, sons of a noble sire, soon
will yon creature in the cave, relaxed in slumber as ye see him, spew
from his shameless maw the meat. Already the brand inside his lair
is vomiting cloud of smoke; and the only reason we prepared it was
to burn the Cyclops' eye; so mind thou quit thee like a man.
Leader: I will have a spirit as of rock or adamant; but go inside,
before my father suffers any shameful treatment; for here thou hast
things ready.
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