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fishes in the simile for the Laestrygonians’ victims

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fishes in the simile for the Laestrygonians’ victims
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·Simile

The Laestrygonians’ victims are likened to fish being speared.

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“the death cries of my men, as the Laestrygonians speared them like fishes and took them home to eat them”

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·Simile
“the Laestrygonians speared them like fishes”

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Book 10 · Passage 11

‘She at once called her husband Antiphates from the place of assembly, and forthwith he set about killing my men. He snatched up one of them, and began to make his dinner off him then and there, whereon the other two ran back to the ships as fast as ever they could. But Antiphates raised a hue-and-cry after them, and thousands of sturdy Laestrygonians sprang up from every quarter—ogres, not men. They threw vast rocks at us from the cliffs as though they had been mere stones, and I heard the horrid sound of the ships crunching up against one another, and the death cries of my men, as the Laestrygonians speared them like fishes and took them home to eat them. While they were thus killing my men within the harbour I drew my sword, cut the cable of my own ship, and told my men to row with all their might if they too would not fare like the rest; so they laid out for their lives, and we were thankful enough when we got into open water out of reach of the rocks they hurled at us. As for the others there was not one of them left.