Unit 5: Vocabulary from Readings 2

So the three fell to quarreling and disputing among themselves about the fate of the golden lamb. Night came down on them and still the argument was not settled.

So the three fell to quarreling and disputing among themselves about the fate of the golden lamb. Night came down on them and still the argument was not settled.

Quickly they stated their problem, interrupting each other rudely in their haste.

A huge ferocious beast called a gorgo dwelled in a mountain cave there and ranged forth nightly, stealing children from their homes.

Peeping in the window, the merchant was astonished to see a dozen men, each more terrible than the other, emptying bags of ill‑gotten goods on a carpet in the center of the room.

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy.

But not by will nor valor could he save them,
for their own recklessness destroyed them all

The strong god glittering left her as he spoke,
and now her ladyship, having given heed
to Zeus’ mandate, went to find Odysseus
in his stone seat to seaward

The sweet days of his life time
were running out in anguish over his exile,
for long ago the nymph had ceased to please.

Son of Laertes, versatile Odysseus,
after these years with me, you still desire
your old home?

If you could see it all, before you go—
all the adversity you face at sea—
you would stay here, and guard this house, and be
immortal

...if I killed him
we perished there as well, for we could never
move his ponderous doorway slab aside.

I saw the fuddle and flush come over him,
then I sang out in cordial tones

To this rough shout they made a sage reply

Far out,
as far off shore as shouted words would carry,
I sent a few back to the adversary

He felt slighted by Zeus’ dominant position in the Olympian hierarchy, and when he couldn’t stand it he abruptly retreated to his ornate and remote hermitage beneath the sea, a palace of coral and pearl, whose inner chambers held his throne of gold and seashell and sealskin.

A spirit of amusement would seize him, and he would swirl his godly hands, out of which appeared some strange new monstrosity: a bird-beaked and cyclopean-eyed octopus of pulsating tentacles, a trumpet-snouted seahorse, a translucent writhing squid, a glowing jellyfish, a spiny spherical sea urchin, and a scorpion fish with scales of quilted armor, dangerous and flaring.

After being blinded by Odysseus, Poseidon’s son Polyphemus shouted out through the fathomless brine to his father, demanding that Odysseus and his men be cursed, that if they return home at all, it be only after the most extreme and severe tribulations.

Despite his dominion in the vast salt sea, he nourished a rancor and a thirst to expand his kingdom however he might.

She believed her freedom was secure, knowing only of his penchant for producing bizarre creatures.