Cyclops

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.

  1. I am keeping careful guard over the person of Odysseus.
Cyclops
  1. What, a new name! hast changed thine?
Odysseus
  1. Yes, Odysseus the name my father gave me. But thou wert doomed to pay for thy unholy feast; for I should have seen Troy burned to but sorry purpose,
  2. unless I had avenged on thee the slaughter of my comrades.
Cyclops
  1. Woe is me! ’tis an old oracle coming true; yes, it said I should have my eye put out by thee on thy way home from Troy; but it likewise foretold that thou wouldst surely pay for this,
  2. tossing on the sea for many a day.
Odysseus
  1. Go hang! E’en as I say,[*]() so have I done. And
    now will I get me to the beach and start my hollow ship across the sea of Sicily to the land of my fathers.
Cyclops
  1. Thou shalt not; I will break a boulder off this rock
  2. and crush thee, crew and all, beneath my throw. Blind though I be, I will climb the hill, mounting through yonder tunnel.
Chorus
  1. As for us, henceforth will we be the servants of Bacchus, sharing the voyage of this hero Odysseus.