Restrain Yourself, Heroically

"Listen to me, my comrades, brothers in harship. All ways of dying are hateful to us poor mortals, true, but to die of hunger, to starce to death- that's the worst of all. So up with you now, let's drive off the pick of Helios' sleek herds, slaughter them to the gods who rule the skies up there.l If we ever make it home to Ithaca, native ground, erect at once a glorious temple to the Sungod, line the walls with hoards of dazzling gifts! But if the Sun, inflames for his longhorn cattle, means to wreck our ship and the other gods pitch in- I'd rather die at sea, with one deep gulp of death, than die by inches on this desolate island here!" (Odyssey, book 12, 366)

What Eurylochus says in this quote can be described as mutinous in nature since it goes directly oppositely to what he and the rest of the crew were told not to do. This speech led through a series of events that eventually landed Odysseus in Ogygia, the place where he suffered significantly. Another event that was caused by this was Eurylochus' own death as well as that of the remaining crew. All this happened from a lack of heroic restraint.
The blame however can't be isolated to Eurylochus. Everyone, including Odysseus were feeling the results of days of brute effort and hardships after watching their own die, experiencing the six headed beast Scylla, and the cyclops as well. Eurylochus simply thought that he and the rest of the men deserve some kind of reward for their efforts. The key difference between Odysseus and Eurylochus is heroic restraint. Odysseus never breaks, and his will power is formidable. In the words of Eurylochus: "Your fighting spirit's stronger than ours, your stamina never fails. You must be made of iron head to foot." (Odyssey. Book 12. 302) When he says that, he is already admitting that he's weaker and thus he opens the doors to other possibilities that would lead only to paths of ease. In this case, he accepts death as an option, something that Odysseus wouldn't give into for many many years.
Heroic restraint means to avoid the path of the lazy and weak. It means to follow the path that will lead to kleos in your mind or others. It means to overcome hardships through discipline and effort. It means to be like Odysseus, and not like Eurylochus.