Odysseus' companions
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my companions · my men · the companions of Odysseus · the crew
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1 expressionCompanions of Odysseus1 mention
Orations (Greek)
Apples are enough to furnish me food, and millet and barley and vetches and the cheapest of pulse, and an acorn under the ashes, and the fruit of the cornel-tree, with which Homer says Circe feasted the companions of Odysseus, and on which even the greatest beasts hold out, being nourished.
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Orations
The crew of Odysseus, fed by Circe with cornel-tree fruit according to Homer, cited by Diogenes as an example that even great figures subsisted on simple food.
Apples are enough to furnish me food, and millet and barley and vetches and the cheapest of pulse, and an acorn under the ashes, and the fruit of the cornel-tree, with which Homer says Circe feasted the companions of Odysseus, and on which even the greatest beasts hold out, being nourished.
Odyssey
Odysseus' crew, who suffer losses to the Kikones and the Cyclops and are rescued by his stratagems.
but as the sun went down, towards the time when men loose their oxen, the Kikones got the better of us, and we lost half a dozen men from every ship we had;
"As spoke he drove the ram outside, but when we were a little way out from the cave and yards, I first got from under the ram's belly, and then freed my comrades;
"Thence we sailed onward with sorrow in our hearts, but glad to have escaped death though we had lost our comrades, nor did we leave till we had thrice invoked each one of the poor men who had perished by the hands of the Kikones.