Eurylochus

Second-in-command of Odysseus's company and the only man not transformed when Circe's drugged cups were passed around — he hung back at the threshold, suspicious of the witch's courtesy, and so alone escaped back to the ship to warn Odysseus. Later, on Thrinacia, when the company was starving on a beach Helios's cattle grazed unguarded across, it was Eurylochus who argued the men into slaughter, promising that they would build a temple to the Sun when they got home. The Sun did not forgive them, and the thunderbolt that shattered the ship at sea was the price (Homer *Odyssey* 10.205-574; 12.339-365).

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