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helmet used to choose between Ulysses’s companies

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helmet used to choose between Ulysses’s companies
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A helmet holds the lots that select Eurylochus’s company for the inland expedition.

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we cast lots in a helmet, and the lot fell upon Eurylochus

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·Remembered
we cast lots in a helmet

Passage preview

Book 10 · Passage 15

‘Their hearts sank as they heard me, for they remembered how they had been treated by the Laestrygonian Antiphates, and by the savage ogre Polyphemus. They wept bitterly in their dismay, but there was nothing to be got by crying, so I divided them into two companies and set a captain over each; I gave one company to Eurylochus, while I took command of the other myself. Then we cast lots in a helmet, and the lot fell upon Eurylochus; so he set out with his twenty-two men, and they wept, as also did we who were left behind.