Odyssey 9.360 · Book 9, line 360
Odysseus pours a second cup
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ὣς φάτʼ, ἀτάρ οἱ αὖτις ἐγὼ πόρον αἴθοπα οἶνον.
So he spoke, but I in turn gave him the flaming wine.
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Odysseus answers the giant's demand not with words yet but with the jar — handing him another draught of the dark, blazing wine.
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A single line, and it is all action: the giant has spoken, and Odysseus simply pours again. The 'flaming' wine goes down a second time, and the poem lets the deed answer the demand — the more the Cyclops drinks, the closer the stake.
The restraint is deliberate. Odysseus withholds the name for now and gives only the cup, letting the wine do its work before the word does. The epithet 'flaming' keeps the fire in view: the same element that hardened the stake now glints in the drink that will make the eye an easy target.
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