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At her call they all entered except Eurylochus; and to
each she gave a tankard she had filled with cheese and honey and barley meal and wine, and
mixed with an enchantment. And when they had drunk, she touched them with a wand and
changed their shapes, and some she made wolves, and some swine, and some asses, and some
lions.1
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1 In Hom. Od. 10.237ff.） the companions of Ulysses are turned into swine only; nothing is said about a transformation of them into wolves, lions, and asses, though round about the house of the enchantress they saw wolves and lions, which stood on their hind legs, wagged their tails, and fawned upon them, because they were men enchanted （Hom. Od. 10.210-219）.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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