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" 'What is your name?' he demanded

" 'My mother and father called me Noman'

" 'What kind of a stupid naly oatskin and became very drunk within a very short time and fell into a drunken stupor

"I quickly snatched up the long log and ran at the sleeping giant, e the sharpened point into his one and only eye

"Screaered outside, pulled the point fro Cyclopses heard hiate They shouted, 'Are you being attacked?'

"He cried in reply, 'I a attacked by Noman'

"Thinking he was crazy, they went back to their homes We ran frohtless giant

" 'Thank you for the gift of your sheep, you stupid Cyclops And when your friends ask you how you injured your eye, tell the of Ithaca, who outsmarted you' "

"Were you then shipwrecked before you landed here in Phaeacia?" asked the good king

Odysseus shook his head "Not for"Carried far to the west by prevailing currents and winds, we found land and dropped anchor off the island called Aeolia Here lived the good king Aeolus, son of Hippotas and dear to the gods He had six daughters and six lusty sons, so he induced his sons to ether, constantly

feasting and enjoying every conceivable luxury

"Resupplied by the good king, we soon sailed on into rough seas On the seventh day, after the seas had calonians Navigating the narrow entrance between two rocky headlands, ain, we began exploring the countryside andwater

"When asked who their king ht be, she directed us to her father's house But e arrived there, we found the wife to be a huge giantess the size of a great tree and ere duht of her

"She called her husband, Antiphates, as even larger than she and twice the size of the Cyclops Horrified at such a monstrosity, we ran back to our ships But Antiphates raised the alaronians appeared like a forest and cast rocks at us fros atop the cliffs, not e as our ships My ship was the only one that escaped the onslaught All the others in my fleet were sunk

"My onians speared the and then eating them Within reat sadness Not only were our friends and co all the treasure we had looted froold lay on the bottoonian harbor