Read the excerpt from The Odyssey
Which is the most effective paraphrase of this excerpt?
Plunder we took, and we enslaved the women,
to make division, equal shares to all-
but on the spot I told them: 'Back, and quickly!
Out to sea again!' My men were mutinous,
fools, on stores of wine. Sheep after sheep they
butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle,
feasting --While fugitives went inland, running
to call to arms the main force of Cicones
When Odysseus and his men arrived on the island of
Cicones, they enslaved women and feasted on the
sheep and cattle they had butchered by the sea.
Although Odysseus tells his men that they need to
return quickly to the ship, the men are too busy dividing
their findings into gktual shares for everyone.
Odysseus warns his men to return to the ship, but many
of the men did not listen and instead ran inland to see
what else they could take for themselves
The men continued their acts of greed despite
Odysseus's commands to stop and return to the ship,
and the fugitives of Cicones ran inland to fetch help.