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quiver in the cave-stone simile

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Closing a full arrow-quiver provides the comparison for Polyphemus’s effortless replacement of the cave-stone.

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“as easily as though he were merely clapping the lid on to a quiver full of arrows”

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“as though he were merely clapping the lid on to a quiver full of arrows”

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Book 9 · Passage 20

‘When the child of morning, rosy-fingered dawn, appeared, he again lit his fire, milked his goats and ewes, all quite rightly, and then let each have her own young one; as soon as he had got through with all his work, he clutched up two more of my men, and began eating them for his morning’s meal. Presently, with the utmost ease, he rolled the stone away from the door and drove out his sheep, but he at once put it back again—as easily as though he were merely clapping the lid on to a quiver full of arrows. As soon as he had done so he shouted, and cried ‘Shoo, shoo,’ after his sheep to drive them on to the mountain; so I was left to scheme some way of taking my revenge and covering myself with glory.