Eustathius will have this comparison of the Phæacians with the
Giants and Cyclops to proceed out of the inveterate virulency of
Antinous to the Cyclops, who were cause (as is before said) of
their remove from their country; and with great endeavour
labours the approbation of it; but (under his peace) from the
purpose: for the sense of the Poet is clear, that the Cyclops
and Giants being in part the issue of the Gods, and yet
afterward their defiers, (as Polyp. hereafter dares profess)
Antinous (out of bold and manly reason, even to the face of one
that might have been a God, for the past manly appearance he
made there) would tell him, and the rest in him, that if they
graced those Cyclops with their open appearance, that, though
descended from them, durst yet deny them, they might much more
do them the honour of their open presence that adored them.--
CHAPMAN.