Odysseus's crew
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my comrades · my men · the crew · the men · the sailors of Ithaca
spoken of as
1 expressionsailors of Ithaca“Odysseus's crew”1 mention
Orations (Greek)
But surely we shall seem altogether ridiculous and antiquated for these words, in asserting that such understanding is nearer to the beasts and the trees than is inexperience and ignorance to us — when certain men, having become wiser than all wisdom, not by pouring wax into their ears, as they say the sailors of Ithaca did so as not to hear the song of the Sirens, but having interposed a kind of …
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Orations
Odysseus's crew, who blocked their ears against the Sirens, invoked as a point of contrast.
But surely we shall seem altogether ridiculous and antiquated for these words, in asserting that such understanding is nearer to the beasts and the trees than is inexperience and ignorance to us — when certain men, having become wiser than all wisdom, not by pouring wax into their ears, as they say the sailors of Ithaca did so as not to hear the song of the Sirens, but having interposed a kind of …
Odyssey
The body of sailors under Odysseus's command who undergo the trials of the Sirens, Scylla, and the Thrinacian cattle, ultimately perishing for breaking their oath.
"We agreed to do as she had said, and feasted through the livelong day to the going down of the sun, but when the sun had set and it came on dark, the men laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship.
"Then, being much troubled in mind, I said to my men, ‘My friends, it is not right that one or two of us alone should know the prophecies that Circe has made me, I will therefore tell you about them, so that whether we live or die we may do so with our eyes open.
I saw that a daimôn meant us mischief and said, ‘You force me to yield, for you are many against one, but at any rate each one of you must take his solemn oath that if he meet with a herd of cattle or a large flock of sheep, he will not be so mad as to kill a single head of either, but will be satisfied with the food that Circe has given us.