Menis

• Book 22


  “I swear I will not give a decent death to women who have heaped insults on my head and on my mother’s, and slept with the suitors.”
• Book 22


  ’There with a pitiless knife they slices his nose and ears of; they ripped away his genitals as raw meat for the dogs, and in their fury they looped off his hands and feet.’
• Book 5


  “Poseidon the Earthshaker sent him another monster wave. Grim and menacing it curled above his head, then hurtled down and scattered the long timbers of his raft, as a boisterous wind will toss a dry heap of chaff and scatter it in all directions.”
• Book 5


  ‘He roused the stormy blasts of every wind that blows, and covered land and water alike with a canopy of cloud.‘
• Book 13


  ‘The earthshaker then drew near to her and with one blow from the flat of his hand turned her into stone and rooted her to the sea Bottom.”