All 7 Uses of
promiscuous
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Edward)
- The Trojans, when they saw Ulysses' blood, with clam'rous shouts advanc'd Promiscuous; he, retiring, shouted loud To call his comrades; loud as head of man Could bear, he shouted thrice; and thrice his shout The warlike Menelaus heard, and thus To Ajax, standing by his side, he spoke: "Ajax, thou Heav'n-born son of Telamon, Great chief of men, methinks I hear the voice Of stout Ulysses, as though left alone, And in the stubborn fight cut off from aid, By Trojans overmaster'd.†
Chpt 2.11
- The wall is raz'd, wherein our trust we plac'd To guard, impregnable, ourselves and ships; And now around the ships their war they wage, Unceasing, unabated; none might tell By closest scrutiny, which way are driv'n The routed Greeks, so intermix'd they fall Promiscuous; and the cry ascends to Heav'n.†
Chpt 2.14
- …I bound the sense of aegis-bearing Jove, While thou, with ill-design, rousing the force Of winds tempestuous o'er the stormy sea, Didst cast him forth on Coos' thriving isle, Far from his friends; then Jove, awaking, pour'd His wrath, promiscuous, on th' assembled Gods; Me chief his anger sought; and from on high Had hurl'd me, plung'd beneath th' unfathom'd sea, But Night, the vanquisher of Gods and men, Her fugitive received me; he his wrath Repress'd, unwilling to invade the…†
Chpt 2.14
- …Agenor Olonius; while from Paris' hand An arrow, 'mid the crowd of fugitives Shot from behind, beneath the shoulder struck Deiocus, and through his chest was driv'n: These while the Trojans of their arms despoil'd, Through ditch and palisades promiscuous dash'd The flying Greeks, and gain'd, hard-press'd, the wall; While loudly Hector to the Trojans call'd To assail the ships, and leave the bloody spoils: "Whom I elsewhere, and from the ships aloof Shall find, my hand shall doom him on…†
Chpt 2.15
- Sarpedon his ungirdled forces saw Promiscuous fall before Menoetius' son, And to the Lycians call'd in loud reproof: "Shame, Lycians! whither fly ye? why this haste?†
Chpt 2.16
- Thus Juno spoke; and Vulcan straight prepar'd The heav'nly fire; and first upon the plain The flames he kindled, and the dead consum'd, Who lay, promiscuous, by Achilles slain: The plain was dried, and stay'd the wat'ry flood.†
Chpt 2.21
- But on the Trojans pressing, Peleus' son Horses and men alike, promiscuous, slew.†
Chpt 2.21 *
Definition:
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(promiscuous) indiscriminate (non-selective) -- especially having many sexual partners