Six benches were left empty in every ship
that evening when we pulled away from death.
and this new grief we bore with us to sea:
our precious lives we had, but not our friends.
–the odyssey,
homer
which is the most effective paraphrase of the passage?
a.) six men from every ship were killed, leaving six empty benches.
b.) we escaped with our lives, but many of our friends did not, which made us very sad.
c.) there was no point grieving for our lost friends, so we pulled away from shore.
d.) we had the additional burden of our grief when we sailed away.