Answer:
The central idea should be included in a paraphrase of this excerpt is The forces sent by Cicones to stop the plundering of Odysseus and his men were skilled and powerful.
Explanation:
The question is not complete since it does not provide the excerpt, here is the excerpt:
'Out to sea again!' My men were mutinous,
fools, on stores of wine. Sheep after sheep they
butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle,
feasting,—while fugitives went inland, running
to call to arms the main force of Cicones.
This was an army, trained to fight on horseback
or, where the ground required, on foot. They came
with dawn over that terrain like the leaves
and blades of spring. So doom appeared to us,
dark word of Zeus for us, our evil days.
This excerpt from the Odyssey, uses a lot of words to describe the forces of Cicones that have powerful meanings to refer to the army, some of these examples are "like the leaves and blades of spring" and "doom appeared to us", "dark word of Zeus", these lines create a visual image of a powerful adversary.
