Euripides' CYCLOPS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Silenus: Hush, children! and bid our servants fold the flocks in the
rock-roofed cavern.

Leader of the Chorus: (to Servants) Away! (To Silenus) But prithee,
why such haste, father?

Silenus: I see the hull of a ship from Hellas at the shore, and men,
that wield the oar, on their way to this cave with some chieftain.
About their necks they carry empty vessels and pitchers for water;
they are in want of food. Luckless strangers! who can they be? They
know not what manner of man our master Polyphemus is, to have set
foot here in his cheerless abode and come to the jaws of the cannibal
Cyclops in an evil hour. But hold ye your peace, that we may inquire
whence they come to the peak of Sicilian Aetna. (Odysseus and his
companions enter. They carry baskets for provisions and water jars.)

Odysseus: Pray tell us, sirs, of some river-spring whence we might
draw a draught to slake our thirst, or of someone willing to sell
victuals to mariners in need.

Why, what is this? We seem to have chanced upon a city of the Bromian
god; here by the caves I see a group of Satyrs. To the eldest first
I bid "All hail!

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