Baios represents the common man, "naked" before the supernatural, who could absolutely not take immediate decisions. It represents the extraordinary realization of a learned person in a complex movement in space with anatomic precision.

The face, though devastated by the long stay in water and by the date mussels' action, let us see indistinctly the eyes wide open which stare above; the mouth, in an unequivocal sign of astonishment and fear, is open; the head is turned towards "the nightmare" Polyphemus. The naked body highlights the bust outstretched forward, the musculature of the abdomen is contracted and he is breathless for fear.

Instinctively his left hand presses strongly the smooth skin of the wineskin still half full; his left leg is on a rise of the rocky soil reproduced on the plinth, while his right leg, stretched backward, sinks in the barren ground. In this position, attacked by the monster, he would have had no way out.

In this simple sailor, faithful servant of the king of Ithaca, we notice an annihilated, petrified, astonished and unarmed man: a common man.