All 34 Uses of
haughty
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Achilles heard, with grief and rage oppress'd, His heart swell'd high, and labour'd in his breast; Distracting thoughts by turns his bosom ruled; Now fired by wrath, and now by reason cool'd: That prompts his hand to draw the deadly sword, Force through the Greeks, and pierce their haughty lord; This whispers soft his vengeance to control, And calm the rising tempest of his soul.†
Book 1
- Patroclus, haste, the fair Briseis bring; Conduct my captive to the haughty king.†
Book 1 *
- Let Agamemnon lift his haughty head O'er all his wide dominion of the dead, And mourn in blood that e'er he durst disgrace The boldest warrior of the Grecian race."†
Book 1
- Go, lest the haughty partner of my sway With jealous eyes thy close access survey; But part in peace, secure thy prayer is sped: Witness the sacred honours of our head, The nod that ratifies the will divine, The faithful, fix'd, irrevocable sign; This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows—"†
Book 1
- O would the gods, in love to Greece, decree But ten such sages as they grant in thee; Such wisdom soon should Priam's force destroy, And soon should fall the haughty towers of Troy!†
Book 2
- The tyrant feasting with his chiefs he found, And dared to combat all those chiefs around: Dared, and subdued before their haughty lord; For Pallas strung his arm and edged his sword.†
Book 4
- Behold the deed of haughty Diomed!†
Book 5
- Prepared for combat, ere the lance he toss'd, The daring Rhodian vents his haughty boast: "What brings this Lycian counsellor so far, To tremble at our arms, not mix in war!†
Book 5
- The son of Hercules, the Rhodian guide, Thus haughty spoke.†
Book 5
- Some haughty Greek, who lives thy tears to see, Imbitters all thy woes, by naming me.†
Book 6
- But ah, what grief! should haughty Hector boast I fled inglorious to the guarded coast.†
Book 8
- I sack'd twelve ample cities on the main,(207) And twelve lay smoking on the Trojan plain: Then at Atrides' haughty feet were laid The wealth I gathered, and the spoils I made.†
Book 9
- Were these not paid thee by the terms we bring, Were rage still harbour'd in the haughty king; Nor Greece nor all her fortunes should engage Thy friend to plead against so just a rage.†
Book 9
- Stern and unpitying! if a brother bleed, On just atonement, we remit the deed; A sire the slaughter of his son forgives; The price of blood discharged, the murderer lives: The haughtiest hearts at length their rage resign, And gifts can conquer every soul but thine.†
Book 9
- Why should we gifts to proud Achilles send, Or strive with prayers his haughty soul to bend?†
Book 9
- Proud of the favours mighty Jove has shown, On certain dangers we too rashly run: If 'tis will our haughty foes to tame, Oh may this instant end the Grecian name!†
Book 12
- So Mars armipotent invades the plain, (The wide destroyer of the race of man,) Terror, his best-beloved son, attends his course, Arm'd with stern boldness, and enormous force; The pride of haughty warriors to confound, And lay the strength of tyrants on the ground: From Thrace they fly, call'd to the dire alarms Of warring Phlegyans, and Ephyrian arms; Invoked by both, relentless they dispose, To these glad conquest, murderous rout to those.†
Book 13
- These can the rage of haughty Hector tame: Safe in their arms, the navy fears no flame, Till Jove himself descends, his bolts to shed, And hurl the blazing ruin at our head.†
Book 13
- Heart-piercing anguish, at the haughty boast, Touch'd every Greek, but Nestor's son the most.†
Book 13
- Not so discouraged, to the future blind, Vain dreams of conquest swell his haughty mind; Dauntless he rushes where the Spartan lord Like lightning brandish'd his far beaming sword.†
Book 13
- Vain are the hopes that haughty mind imparts, To force our fleet: the Greeks have hands and hearts.†
Book 13
- Now to the navy borne on silent wings, To Neptune's ear soft Sleep his message brings; Beside him sudden, unperceived, he stood, And thus with gentle words address'd the god: "Now, Neptune! now, the important hour employ, To check a while the haughty hopes of Troy: While Jove yet rests, while yet my vapours shed The golden vision round his sacred head; For Juno's love, and Somnus' pleasing ties, Have closed those awful and eternal eyes."†
Book 14
- Not Troy alone, but haughty Greece, shall share The toils, the sorrows, and the wounds of war.†
Book 14
- (The immortal father with a smile replies;) Then soon the haughty sea-god shall obey, Nor dare to act but when we point the way.†
Book 15
- What means the haughty sovereign of the skies?†
Book 15
- Perhaps yon relics of the Grecian name, Doom'd in their ships to sink by fire and sword, And pay the forfeit of their haughty lord?†
Book 16
- Thus while he thought, beside him Phoebus stood, In Asius' shape, who reigned by Sangar's flood; (Thy brother, Hecuba! from Dymas sprung, A valiant warrior, haughty, bold, and young;) Thus he accosts him.†
Book 16
- But far the vainest of the boastful kind, These sons of Panthus vent their haughty mind.†
Book 17
- First may the cleaving earth before our eyes Gape wide, and drink our blood for sacrifice; First perish all, ere haughty Troy shall boast We lost Patroclus, and our glory lost!†
Book 17
- Not on the ground that haughty fury treads, But prints her lofty footsteps on the heads Of mighty men; inflicting as she goes Long-festering wounds, inextricable woes!†
Book 19
- Embodied, to the battle let us bend, And all at once on haughty Troy descend.†
Book 19
- Think, Hector leads you on; Nor dread the vaunts of Peleus' haughty son.†
Book 20
- Then had the Greeks eternal praise acquired, And Troy inglorious to her walls retired; But he, the god who darts ethereal flame, Shot down to save her, and redeem her fame: To young Agenor force divine he gave; (Antenor's offspring, haughty, bold, and brave;) In aid of him, beside the beech he sate, And wrapt in clouds, restrain'd the hand of fate.†
Book 21
- Then to the city, terrible and strong, With high and haughty steps he tower'd along, So the proud courser, victor of the prize, To the near goal with double ardour flies.†
Book 22
Definition:
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(haughty) arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)