In lines 240-250, Odysseus could easily kill the Cyclops, but choose not to. Why does he let the Cyclops live? What does this demonstrate about Odysseus? Answer in a full paragraph.

powerless, looking on at this, appalled; bu cyclopes wet on filing up his belly with manflesh & great gulps of whey, ey lay down like a mast among hi sheep. My heart beats high now at the chance of action, & drawing the sharp swoard from my hip I went along his flank to stab him where the midrif hold the liver. I had touched the spot where the sudden fear stayed me:If I killed him we perished there as well, for we could never move his ponderous doorway slab aside