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"But the Cyclops there, still groaning, racked with agony , groped around for the huge slab, and heaving it from the doorway, down he sat in the caves mouth, his arms spread wide, hoping to catch a comrade stealing out with sheep-- such a blithering fool he took me for."

Robert Fagle's: The Odyssey

page 224 between section 460 and 470

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He rolled a huge boulder across the entrance.

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He is out sheparding his flock of Goats and Sheep- Odysseus had time to escape before Polyphemus came, but he wanted to see the great cyclops

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Odysseus and his men escape the cyclops Polyphemus cave by stabbing his eye and hiding unter the rams until morning.

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