But then, when supplies aboard had all run dry,
when the men turned to hunting, forced to range
for quarry with twisted hooks: for fish, birds,
anything they could lay their hands on –
hunger racked their bellies – I struck inland,
up the island, there to pray to the gods.
If only one might show me some way home!
Crossing into the heartland, clear of the crew,
I rinsed my hands in a sheltered spot, a windbreak,
but soon as I’d prayed to all the gods who rule Olympus,
down on my eyes they poured a sweet, sound sleep…
as Eurylochus opened up his fatal plan to friends.
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 12, lines 354-365. Odysseus falls asleep, allowing the mutinous Eurylochus to rally the starving ship’s crew to eat the sun god’s cattle. Odysseus blames the gods for making him fall asleep at the wrong time. The death of the crew is foreshadowed here, when Odysseus speaks of Eurylochus’ "fatal plan."