"Poor fools, where are we running now?
Why are we tempting fate? –
why stumble blindly down to Circe’s halls?
She’ll turn us all into pigs or wolves or lions
made to guard that palace of hers – by force, I tell you –
just as the Cyclops trapped our comrades in his lair
with hotheaded Odysseus right beside them all –
thanks to this man’s rashness they died too!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 10, lines 475-482. When Odysseus goes to lead his men to Circe’s palace, Eurylochus tries to hold them back from going. In a "mutinous ourburst," Odysseus’ second-in-command questions why they are tempting fate and warns that Circe will turn them into animals. He calls on the rest to stop listening to the Odysseus whose rashness led to their comrades being killed in the Cyclops’ laid.