Read the excerpt from the odyssey. few words i shouted in reply to him: ‘if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed to poseidon: ‘o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home: laertes' son, i mean, who kept his hail on ithaca. based on his response to the cyclops, what can be inferred about odysseus?