Book X · Landfall at Aeaea · Scene 4 of 4
Lots send Eurylochus forward in tears
19“Numbering my well-armed men, I made of them
Two equal parties, giving each its chief.
Myself commanded one; Eurylochus,
The hero, took the other in his charge.
20“Then in a brazen helm we shook the lots;
The lot of brave Eurylochus leaped forth,
And he with two-and-twenty of our men
Went forward with quick steps, and yet in tears,
While we as sorrowful were left behind.
Homer, The Odyssey, translated by William Cullen Bryant, 1871. Public domain.