But I shot back, "Eurylochus, stay right here,
eating, drinking, safe by the black ship.
I must be off. Necessity drives me on."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 10, lines 299-301. Eurylochus reports to Odysseus that his men were turned into animals by Circe and suggests that the rest of them cut and run and escape from the island. But the courageous Odysseus shows why he is a hero and decides that he is going to save his men.