Odyssey 10.339 · Book 10, lines 339–341
So you can unman me
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Odysseus — αὐτὸν δʼ ἐνθάδʼ ἔχουσα δολοφρονέουσα κελεύεις ἐς θάλαμόν τʼ ἰέναι καὶ σῆς ἐπιβήμεναι εὐνῆς, ὄφρα με γυμνωθέντα κακὸν καὶ ἀνήνορα θήῃς.
but holding me here with scheming guile, you bid me go to your chamber and mount your bed, so that, stripping me naked, you may make me a coward and unmanned.
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Odysseus continues his reply, spelling out the trap he suspects. Circe's warmth, he says, is a device to disarm him — to get him naked and defenceless in her bed and there strip him of his manhood.
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Odysseus reads the invitation as strategy. To go unarmed and naked to her bed would leave him at her mercy, and he says so plainly: she means to make him a coward, unmanned. The word δολοφρονέουσα, 'planning guile,' names her craft to her face.
The fear he voices is precise and Greek: not death but the loss of manhood, ἀνήνωρ. He has seen his men reduced from men to swine; he suspects her bed is another such reduction. The counter-charm Hermes gave him guards his body, but the wariness here is his own.
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