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"Thus they spoke. That evil counsel prevailed, and my friends untied the wineskin, and all the winds escaped with great force. Immediately a storm snatched the ships and carried them to Pontus: they wept, seeing themselves far from our homeland; and I, remembering, pondered in my innocent heart whether I should throw myself from the ship and die in Pontus, or suffer it all in silence and remain among the living. I suffered it, stayed in the ship, and, covering myself, lay down again. The ships were once more carried to the Aeolian island by the fatal storm stirred up by the wind, while all those who accompanied me groaned."

The odyssey is so freaking funny to me, and i love this part so much

Because wdym Odysseus is just so tired of his crew's shit that he even considered if it was a better idea killing himself rather than having to deal with them for more time HAHAHAS

And the crew still weep and were complaining that they were far from home again when it was their fault...

Alexander (Paris), Helen's husband, leaned against a column of the tomb of the ancient Dardanian king Ilus, armed the crossbow and struck at Tydida, valiant in battle. While the latter was removing the carved breastplate, the versatile shield from under the sword, and the heavy helmet from the corpse of the valiant Agastrophus, Alexander fired, and his shot was not missed: the shaft pierced the hero's right foot and stuck in the ground. Alexander came out of hiding and boasted with great joy, but strong Diomedes answered him:

"Archer, insolent, skilled only in handling the bow, voyeur of maidens! If you were to measure arms against me, your crossbow and your abundant arrows would be of no avail. Now you boast without cause, for you have only scratched the instep of my foot. I take as much care of the wound as if a woman or a foolish child had inflicted it, for the arrow of a vile and cowardly man hurts little."

Diomedes was just shooted on the foot, and the first thing he does is just curse Paris and basically tell him that he sucks, his arrow didn't hurt him and that even a child could shoot better HAHAHA

And also wth Paris, why did you just stood there celebrating and being like "Haha omg I managed to shoot him, I'm the best ❗❗" instead of killing him?? Man you're NOT going to win the war if you keep doing this kind of things/j

And everytime that Penelope tries to make him take a bath she is like "Dear please, get in the water..." and Ody just backs off a little having flashbacks of Ruthlessness and even Six Hundred Strike.

"... The two heroes went into the sea and washed off their abundant sweat; When the waves had washed them and refreshed their hearts, they went into polished basins and bathed. Having washed and anointed themselves with thick oil, they sat down at the table and drank honey-sweet wine from a mixing-bowl in honor of Athena."

The whole book 10 seems really out of place, but like why are they bathing together?? Don't they have like... Their own places to take a bath??, I mean they are both kings and they have been on war for nine almost ten years at that point, so they must have.