Question

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
Which is the most effective paraphrase of this excerpt?
Plunder we took, and we enslaved the women,
When Odysseus and his men arrived on the island of
but on the spot told them: 'Back, and quickly!
Cicones, they enslaved women and feasted on the
Out to sea again!' My men were mutinous,
sheep and cattle they had butchered by the sea.
fools, on stores of wine. Sheep after sheep they
Although Odysseus tells his men that they need to
butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle,
return quickly to the ship, the men are too busy
feasting,while fugitives went inland, running
dividing their findings into equal shares for everyone.
Odysseus warns his men to return to the ship, but
many of the men did not listen and instead ran inland
to see what else they could take for themselves.
The men continued their
acts of greed despite
Odysseus's commands to stop to and return to the ship,
and the fugitives of Cicones ran
inland to fetch help.
to call to arms the main force of Cicones.
to make division, equal shares to all

Answer 1

Answer:

Six benches were left empty in every ship

that evening when we pulled away from death.

And this new grief we bore with us to sea:

our precious lives we had, but not our friends.

No ship made sail next day until some shipmate

had raised a cry, three times, for each poor ghost

unfleshed by the Cicones on that field.

Explanation:

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