No. The Lotus eaters only ate lotus plants and were peaceful.
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The lotus is dangerous to Odysseus because it makes those who eat it want nothing else. Lotus Eaters are people who feed Odysseus's men plants that make them forgetful.
It made his men forget about wanting to return home to Ithaca. They are content to merely eat lotus for the rest of their lives. If a man eats the flower, they never want to leave the island of the lotus eaters.
Odysseus sent two men and the man under them to the land of the Lotus Eaters to see what type of people the Lotus Eaters were, if they were friendly and the like.
Odysseus lost no men on the island of the lotus eaters. He was able to retrieve the 3 men that had succumbed to the lotus' temptation.
That is "lotus eaters," encountered by Odysseus and his crew in the Odyssey.
The men who eat the lotus become very content and forget about returning home. They have to be dragged back to the ship by Odysseus so that they will not stay on the island forever, only desiring to eat lotus.
Their lotus is so potent that it makes his men want to do nothing but eat lotus all day. As a result, they forget about their mission to return home.
Odysseus and his men had been in the land of the Cicons and their city of Ismarus before coming to the island of the lotus eaters. Before that, they fought at Troy.
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because Odysseus' men were mutinous and they needed to go ashore and find a place to rest and eat.
The Lotus-Eaters ate from a plant with heavy narcotic properties. It made Odysseus' men forget about home.