Lotus-eaters

My sword rose and fell amidst a swarm of blackberry bush, stinkweed and maniacal thicket following a trail left by Lotus-eaters who had stopped to rest in that hobo Eden;

Lotus-eaters Swanson Tudor 2011

Ulysses was nine days in sailing from Ismarus, the city of the Ciconians, to the country of the Lotus-eaters — a period of time which to-day would breed anxiety in the hearts of the underwriters should it be occupied by the slowest tramp steamer in traversing the Mediterranean and Black seas from Gibraltar to Sebastopol.

The Shrinkage of the Planet 2010

= See _Od_ IX 82-104 for Homer's account of the Lotus-eaters.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

After the fall of the city, he set out with his followers on his homeward voyage to Ithaca, an island of which he was king; but being driven out of his course by northerly winds, he was compelled to touch at the country of the Lotus-eaters, who are supposed to have lived on the north coast of Africa.

Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

First he and his companions reached the land of the Lotus-eaters.

Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

So ends the story of Odysseus who went with King Agamemnon to the wars of Troy; who made the plan of the Wooden Horse by which Priam's City was taken at last; who missed the way of his return, and came to the Land of the Lotus-eaters; who came to the Country of the dread Cyclôpes, to the

The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy Padraic Colum 1926

He had hated them on the supposition that they were without care; they were the Lotus-eaters, of whom the poet wrote that they

Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

Lotus-eaters — a period of time which to-day would breed anxiety in the hearts of the underwriters should it be occupied by the slowest tramp steamer in traversing the Mediterranean and Black seas from

The Shrinkage of the Planet 1910

He began by setting forth how he overcame the Cicones, and next arrived at the rich land of the Lotus-eaters, and all that the Cyclops wrought, and what a price he got from him for the good companions that he devoured, and showed no pity.

Book XXIII Homer 1909

He began with his victory over the Cicons, and how he thence reached the fertile land of the Lotus-eaters.

The Odyssey 1900