Book 12.260-450
The crew's transgression illustrates the proem's claim that they perished through their own recklessness.
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From The Odyssey by Homer
Odysseus's starving crew slaughters the sacred cattle of Helios despite warnings, sealing their doom by Zeus's thunderbolt.
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