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CIRCE. Courage, courage, my ambitious friend. I’ll see to it that you shall find them both receptive and responsive. Or rather, one of the number will be enough to thrust and parry for them all. Presto! You may talk with this one.
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ODYSSEUS. And how am I to address him, Circe? Who in the world was he?After the Homeric formula, e.g., Odyssey, x. 325.
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CIRCE. What’s that to do with the issue? Call him Gryllus, Grunter, swine. if you like. I’ll retire now to avoid any suggestion that he is arguing against his own convictions to curry favour with me.
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GRYLLUS. Hello, Odysseus.
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ODYSSEUS. And you too, Gryllus, for heaven’s sake!
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GRYLLUS. What do you want to ask?
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ODYSSEUS. Since I am aware that you have been men, I feel sorry for all of you in your present plight; yet it is only natural that I should be more concerned for those of you who were Greeks before you fell into this misfortune. So now I have asked Circe to remove the spell from any Greek who chooses and restore him to his original shape and let him go back home with us.
