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Odysseus spares the cyclops Polyphemus' life, rather than risk further casualties.

He also spares Circe's life in exchange for her promising to do no harm to him and go to bed with him.

When he gets back to Ithaca, he spares Phemius the minstrel, and Medon the herald.

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