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hook and line used by Ulysses’s starving crew on Thrinacia

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hook and line used by Ulysses’s starving crew on Thrinacia
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The crew uses hook and line to catch birds after its provisions are exhausted.

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“they were forced to go further afield, with hook and line, catching birds, and taking whatever they could lay their hands on; for they were starving”

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“with hook and line, catching birds”

Passage preview

Book 12 · Passage 27

‘For a whole month the wind blew steadily from the South, and there was no other wind, but only South and East. {105} As long as corn and wine held out the men did not touch the cattle when they were hungry; when, however, they had eaten all there was in the ship, they were forced to go further afield, with hook and line, catching birds, and taking whatever they could lay their hands on; for they were starving. One day, therefore, I went up inland that I might pray heaven to show me some means of getting away. When I had gone far enough to be clear of all my men, and had found a place that was well sheltered from the wind, I washed my hands and prayed to all the gods in Olympus till by and by they sent me off into a sweet sleep.