Read the excerpt from the odyssey. here are the means i thought would serve my turn: a club, or staff, lay there along the fold— an olive tree, felled green and left to season for cyclops' hand. and it was like a mast a lugger of twenty oars, broad in the beam— a deep-sea-going craft—might carry: so long, so big around, it seemed. based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture the beam of wood odysseus found in the cave? like a deep-sea-going ship or vessel like an olive tree, just felled and still green like the cyclops, large and wide like the mast of an enormously large ship

Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.