“A wizard, grand and wondrous, lived here - Telemos
a son of Eurymos; great length of days
he had in wizardry among the Kyklopes,
and these things he foretold for time to come:
my great eye lost, and at Odysseus’ hands.
Always I had in mind some giant, armed
in giant force, would come against me here.
But this, but you - small, pitiful and twiggy -
you put me down with wine, you blinded me.”
— Kyklops to Odysseus. From The Odyssey by Homer, trans. by Fitzgerald.
