“Their oars I bid them ply, their lives to save,
Death at their heels: they brush the briny wave,
And soon our ship the open sea enjoy'd;
But all the rest the Læstrigons destroy'd.”

—  John Ogilby

Book X
Homer His Odysses Translated (1665)

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