“Nobody, friends’—Polyphemus bellowed back from his cave—
‘Nobody's killing me now by fraud and not by force!”

— Homér , The Odyssey (Cowper)

IX. 407–408 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

Original

Τοὺς δ' αὖτ' ἐξ ἄντρου προσέφη κρατερὸς Πολύφημος· «ὦ φίλοι, Οὖτίς με κτείνει δόλῳ οὐδὲ βίηφιν.»

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