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first rock hurled by Polyphemus at Ulysses’s ship

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Canonical name: first rock hurled by Polyphemus at Ulysses’s ship
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high mountain from which Polyphemus tore a rock1 observation

·Remembered

The first hurled rock was torn from the high mountain.

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“‘He got more and more furious as he heard me, so he tore the top from off a high mountain, and flung it just in front of my ship so that it was within a little of hitting the end of the rudder. {81} The sea quaked as the rock fell into it, and the wash of the wave it raised carried us back towards the mainland, and forced us towards the shore. But I snatched up a long pole and kept the ship off, making signs to my men by nodding my head, that they must row for their lives, whereon they laid out with a will. When we had got twice as far as we were before, I was for jeering at the Cyclops again, but the men begged and prayed of me to hold my tongue.”

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·Remembered

Polyphemus’s first rock narrowly misses the rudder, quakes the sea, and raises a wave that drives the ship toward shore.

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“flung it just in front of my ship so that it was within a little of hitting the end of the rudder. {81} The sea quaked as the rock fell into it, and the wash of the wave it raised carried us back towards the mainland, and forced us towards the shore”

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·Remembered

“he tore the top from off a high mountain, and flung it just in front of my ship”