Odyssey 10.208 · Book 10, lines 208–210
Eurylochus sets out; the house of Circe
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βῆ δʼ ἰέναι, ἅμα τῷ γε δύω καὶ εἴκοσʼ ἑταῖροι κλαίοντες· κατὰ δʼ ἄμμε λίπον γοόωντας ὄπισθεν. εὗρον δʼ ἐν βήσσῃσι τετυγμένα δώματα Κίρκης
He set out to go, and with him twenty-two comrades, weeping; and left us wailing behind. They found in the glens the well-built halls of Circe.
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The lot has fallen on Eurylochus. He leads a scouting party inland while Odysseus and the rest wait by the ship.
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Eurylochus sets off with twenty-two men, all of them weeping, and the two groups part in tears. Deep in the glens they come upon a well-built house, the halls of Circe.
Everyone weeps, on both sides of the parting, as if they already know. The last word of the passage is her name: Circe. The poem has been building toward the goddess for a hundred lines, and now, with the men in tears and her house standing ready in the wooded valley, it finally says who lives there.
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