Round she spun,
reeling under the impact, filled with reeking brimstone,
shipmates pitching out of her, bobbing round like seahawks
swept along by the whitecaps past the trim black hull –
and the god cut short their journey home forever.
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 12, lines 448-452. Zeus hits Odysseus’ ship with a lighting bolt. Odysseus’ shipmates are thrown into the sea, where they bob around like seahawks, Homer says in a simile. All except Odysseus die, their journey home said to be cut short forever. This is the gods’ punishment for Odysseus’ men eating the cattle of sun god Helios after they had been warned not to.