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wicked poisons in Circe’s forgetting mixture

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wicked poisons in Circe’s forgetting mixture
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Circe’s house1 observation
·Remembered

Circe’s wicked poisons were mixed into the drink inside her house.

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“‘They called her and she came down, unfastened the door, and bade them enter. They, thinking no evil, followed her, all except Eurylochus, who suspected mischief and staid outside. When she had got them into her house, she set them upon benches and seats and mixed them a mess with cheese, honey, meal, and Pramnian wine, but she drugged it with wicked poisons to make them forget their homes, and when they had drunk she turned them into pigs by a stroke of her wand, and shut them up in her pig-styes. They were like pigs—head, hair, and all, and they grunted just as pigs do; but their senses were the same as before, and they remembered everything. ”

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·Remembered

Wicked poisons in Circe’s meal are intended to make her guests forget their homes.

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“wicked poisons to make them forget their homes”

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·Remembered
“she drugged it with wicked poisons to make them forget their homes”

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Book 10 · Passage 17

‘They called her and she came down, unfastened the door, and bade them enter. They, thinking no evil, followed her, all except Eurylochus, who suspected mischief and staid outside. When she had got them into her house, she set them upon benches and seats and mixed them a mess with cheese, honey, meal, and Pramnian wine, but she drugged it with wicked poisons to make them forget their homes, and when they had drunk she turned them into pigs by a stroke of her wand, and shut them up in her pig-styes. They were like pigs—head, hair, and all, and they grunted just as pigs do; but their senses were the same as before, and they remembered everything.