EURIPIDES
Cyclops
This way, did you say?
Coryphaeus
No, the other way.
Cyclops
Which way?
Coryphaeus
Turn around. There. On your left. 685
Cyclops
You're laughing at me in my misery.
Coryphaeus
Not now. There he is in front of you.
Cyclops
Where are you, demon?
(The Greeks stand at the entrance on the right, a
-whole length of the stage away from Cyclops.)
Odysseus
Out of your reach,
Looking after the safety of Odysseus. 690
Cyclops
What? A new name? Have you changed your name?
Odysseus
Odysseus: the name my father gave me.
You have had to pay for your unholy meal.
I would have done wrong to have fired Troy
but not revenge the murder of my men. 695
Cyclops
Ah! The old oracle has been fulfilled.
It said that after you had come'from Troy,
you would blind me. But you would pay for this,
it said, and wander the seas for many years. 700
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