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Scudding before the hurricane, he reached a place, which, as he afterwards found, was called Laestrygonia, where some monstrous giants had eaten up many of his companions, and had sunk every one of his vessels, except that in which he himself sailed, by flinging great masses of rock at them, from the cliffs along the shore.
Tanglewood Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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His adventure at Laestrygonia with Antiphates, where of twelve ships he lost eleven, men and all.
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878
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