All 21 Uses of
ordination
in
The Odyssey by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
- The ordained time has now arrived, when by the counsels of the Gods, Odysseus is to be brought home to free his house, to avenge himself on the wooers, and recover his kingdom.†
Book Intr.
- But when now the year had come in the courses of the seasons, wherein the gods had ordained that he should return home to Ithaca, not even there was he quit of labours, not even among his own; but all the gods had pity on him save Poseidon, who raged continually against godlike Odysseus, till he came to his own country.†
Book 1
- For of us they say comes evil, whereas they even of themselves, through the blindness of their own hearts, have sorrows beyond that which is ordained.†
Book 1 *
- Even as of late Aegisthus, beyond that which was ordained, took to him the wedded wife of the son of Atreus, and killed her lord on his return, and that with sheer doom before his eyes, since we had warned him by the embassy of Hermes the keen-sighted, the slayer of Argos, that he should neither kill the man, nor woo his wife.†
Book 1
- Then the goddess, grey-eyed Athene, spake unto him, and said: 'Surely no nameless lineage have the gods ordained for thee in days to come, since Penelope bore thee so goodly a man.†
Book 1
- But thou, Menelaus, son of Zeus, art not ordained to die and meet thy fate in Argos, the pasture-land of horses, but the deathless gods will convey thee to the Elysian plain and the world's end, where is Rhadamanthus of the fair hair, where life is easiest for men.†
Book 4
- But the wooers clamoured through the shadowy halls, and thus would some proud youth say: 'Verily this queen of many wooers prepareth our marriage, nor knoweth at all how that for her son death hath been ordained.'†
Book 4
- Thus would certain of them speak, but they knew not how these things were ordained.†
Book 4
- And now Zeus biddeth thee send him hence with what speed thou mayest, for it is not ordained that he die away from his friends, but rather it is his fate to look on them even yet, and to come to his high-roofed home and his own country.'†
Book 5
- Yet didst thou know in thine heart what a measure of suffering thou art ordained to fulfil, or ever thou reach thine own country, here, even here, thou wouldst abide with me and keep this house, and wouldst never taste of death, though thou longest to see thy wife, for whom thou hast ever a desire day by day.†
Book 5
- And now he is nigh to the Phaeacian land, where it is ordained that he escape the great issues of the woe which hath come upon him.†
Book 5
- There of a truth would luckless Odysseus have perished beyond that which was ordained, had not grey-eyed Athene given him sure counsel.†
Book 5
- …to the starry heaven: "Hear me, Poseidon, girdler of the earth, god of the dark hair, if indeed I be thine, and thou avowest thee my sire,—grant that he may never come to his home, even Odysseus, waster of cities, the son of Laertes, whose dwelling is in Ithaca; yet if he is ordained to see his friends and come unto his well-builded house, and his own country, late may he come in evil case, with the loss of all his company, in the ship of strangers, and find sorrows in his house."†
Book 9
- But when now a year had gone, and the seasons returned as the months waned, and the long days came in their course, then did my dear company call me forth, and say: ' "Good sir, now is it high time to mind thee of thy native land, if it is ordained that thou shalt be saved, and come to thy lofty house and thine own country."†
Book 10
- Even so they would speak; but they knew not how these things were ordained.†
Book 13
- And I would tell thee how great a measure of trouble thou art ordained to fulfil within thy well-builded house.†
Book 13
- Yonder then hath he perished, but for his friends nought is ordained but care, for all, but for me in chief.†
Book 14
- And the gods themselves hid me easily and brought me nigh to the homestead of a wise man; for still, methinks, I am ordained to live on.'†
Book 14
- As for him, he went to a country of other men, to Argos, the pastureland of horses; for there truly it was ordained that he should dwell, bearing rule over many of the Argives.†
Book 15
- Even so men spake, and knew not how these things were ordained.†
Book 23
- Then how he came to Aeolus, who received him gladly and sent him on his way; but it was not yet ordained that he should reach his own country, for the storm-wind seized him again, and bare him over the teeming seas, making grievous moan.†
Book 23
Definition:
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(ordination) ceremony in which someone is officially declared a religious leader -- such as a minister, priest, or rabbi