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From there he went to the Cyclops Polyphemus , the son of Neptune . There was a prophecy for him from the prophet Telemus , son of Eurymus , that he should beware that he would be blinded by Odysseus . This guy had one eye in the middle of his forehead and would feast on human flesh . After he had led his flock back into the cave , he placed a huge stony mass opposite the door . He enclosed Odysseus with his companions and began to eat his companions . When Odysseus saw that he was not able to resist his hugeness and ferocity , he intoxicated him with wine , which he had accepted from Maro and said that he was called No One . Therefore when he burned his eye with a burning trunk , he called together the other Cyclopes with his shout and , with the cave having been shut , he said to them " No one is blinding me ! " They , believing that he was talking for the purpose of making jokes , ignored him . But Odysseus tied his men to the flock and he himself to a ram and thus they went out .

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Pasiphae , the daughter of the Sun , wife of Minos , had not preformed sacrifices for the goddess Venus for so many years . On account of this , Venus threw an unspeakable love into her so that she would love a bull . When Daedalus had come into this as an exile , she sought help from him . He made her a wooden cow and led in the hide of a real cow , in which she laid with the bull . Out of this union , she birthed the Minotaur with a bull ' s head and with a human lower part . Then Daedalus made a labyrinth with an inescapable exit for the Minotaur , in which he has been enclosed .

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As I heard these things , I was not able to close my eyes anymore , but , during the bright light , I fled to our Gaius ' house like a robbed innkeeper . And after I came to that spot in which the clothes had been made into stone , I found nothing except blood . But as I came home , my soldier was lying in bed like a bull , and a doctor was taking care of his neck . I understood that he was a werewolf , and afterwards I was not able to share bread with him , not even if you killed me . Let others think whatever they see about this . If I am lying , let me have your angry gods .

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He said " My father , Hamilcar , with me being a young boy , not having been born older than 9 years , setting out as the commander into Spain from Carthage , sacrificed offerings to Jupiter the Best and Greatest . While this divine thing was being done , he asked me if I wanted to proceed into the military camps with him . When I had accepted this gladly and began to ask from him that he not doubt to lead me , then he said " I will do it , if you give the oath , which I ask , to me . " At the same time , he led me to the altar , on which he had set up the sacrifice , and ordered me holding it , with all the others having been removed , to swear that I would never be in friendship with Rome . I preserved the sworn oath having been given to my father up until this age .