Chorus
Ope wide the portal of thy gaping throat, Cyclops; for strangers’ limbs, both boiled and grilled, are ready from off the coals for thee to gnaw and tear and mince up small,
reclining in thy shaggy goatskin coat.
360
Chorus
Relinquish not thy meal for me; keep that boat for thyself alone.
1
Avaunt this cave! avaunt the burnt-offerings,
which the godless Cyclops offers on Aetna’s altars, exulting in meals on strangers’ flesh!
365
Chorus
Oh! the ruthless monster! to sacrifice his guests at his own hearth, the suppliants of his halls, cleaving and tearing and serving up to his loathsome teeth a feast of human flesh, hot from the coals.
Chorus
Cyclops. Euripides. London. 1891.
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