Read the excerpt from the odyssey. 'cyclops, try some wine. here's liquor to wash down your scraps of men. taste it, and see the kind of drink we carried under our planks. i meant it for an offering if you would us home. but you are mad, unbearable, a bloody monster! after this, will any other traveler come to see you? ' what best describes why odysseus gave his wine to the cyclops? he is hoping the wine will cheer up the cyclops enough to set them free. he intends to make the cyclops his friend by being kind to him. he plans to distract the cyclops while his men escape through the entrance. he wants to trick the cyclops by getting him drunk and weakening him.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .