For the Cyclopes have at hand no ships with vermilion cheeks, nor are there ship-wrights in their land who might build them well-benched ships, which should perform all their wants, passing to the cities of other people, as men often cross the sea in ships to visit one another—
οὐ γὰρ Κυκλώπεσσι νέες πάρα μιλτοπάρῃοι , οὐ δ' ἄνδρες νηῶν ἔνι τέκτονες , οἵ κε κάμοιεν νῆας ἐυσσέλμους , αἵ κεν τελέοιεν ἕκαστα ἄστε' ἐπ' ἀνθρώπων ἱκνεύμεναι , οἷά τε πολλὰ ἄνδρες ἐπ' ἀλλήλους νηυσὶν περόωσι θάλασσαν · [0] [1]
οὐ γάρ Κύκλωψ ναῦς παρά μιλτοπάρῃος , οὐ δέ ἀνήρ ναῦς ἐν τέκτων , ὅς ἄν κάμνω ναῦς εὔσελμος , ὅς ἄν τελέω ἕκαστος ἄστυ ἐπί ἄνθρωπος ἱκνέομαι , οἷος τε πολύς ἀνήρ ἐπί ἀλλήλων ναῦς περάω θάλασσα ·