In my mind's eye I see nets and fish and Circe and Scylla...
Then I strove to raise
my hands as I lay dying upon the sword, but to earth they fell. And that dog-faced
one turned her back upon me, and had not the heart to draw down my eyelids with
her fingers nor to close my mouth. So surely is there nought more terrible and
shameless than a woman who imagines such evil in her heart, even as she too
planned a foul deed, fashioning death for her wedded lord.
Odyssey, Book XI
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