The Odyssey · Samuel Butler translation

Note 86
BOOK X

[ See Hobbes of Malmesbury’s translation.]

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…by her enchantments and drugged into subjection. They did not attack my men, but wagged their great tails, fawned upon them, and rubbed their noses lovingly against them.[86] As hounds crowd round their master when they see him coming from dinner—for they know he will bring them something—even so did these wolves and lions with their great claws fawn upon my men, but the men were terribly frightened at seeing such strange crea…

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