All 17 Uses of

heed

in

The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Butler)

You, sir, take no heed of this, and yet when Ulysses was before Troy did he not propitiate you with many a burnt sacrifice?†
Book 1

If these men were to see my father come back to Ithaca they would pray for longer legs rather than a longer purse, for money would not serve them; but he, alas, has fallen on an ill fate, and even when people do sometimes say that he is coming, we no longer heed them; we shall never see him again.†
Book 1

My mother does indeed sometimes send for a soothsayer and question him, but I give his prophecyings no heed.†
Book 1

"Hear me," he cried, "daughter of Aegis-bearing Jove, unweariable, hear me now, for you gave no heed to my prayers when Neptune was wrecking me.†
Book 6

"I then gave him some more; three times did I fill the bowl for him, and three times did he drain it without thought or heed; then, when I saw that the wine had got into his head, I said to him as plausibly as I could: 'Cyclops, you ask my name and I will tell it you; give me, therefore, the present you promised me; my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends have always called me.'†
Book 9

But he heeded not my sacrifice, and only thought how he might destroy both my ships and my comrades.†
Book 9

A maid servant then brought me water in a beautiful golden ewer and poured it into a silver basin for me to wash my hands, and she drew a clean table beside me; an upper servant brought me bread and offered me many things of what there was in the house, and then Circe bade me eat, but I would not, and sat without heeding what was before me, still moody and suspicious.†
Book 10

"I understand and heed you," replied Eumaeus; "you need instruct me no further, only as I am going that way say whether I had not better let poor Laertes know that you are returned.†
Book 16

Madman, why should you try to compass the death of Telemachus, and take no heed of suppliants, whose witness is Jove himself?†
Book 16

She heeded her son's words, washed her face, changed her dress, and vowed full and sufficient hecatombs to all the gods if they would only vouchsafe her revenge upon the suitors.†
Book 17

They tell me you are his son, and you appear to be a considerable person; listen, therefore, and take heed to what I am saying.†
Book 18

…of Hades, then, alas! for my good master, who made me his stockman when I was quite young among the Cephallenians, and now his cattle are countless; no one could have done better with them than I have, for they have bred like ears of corn; nevertheless I have to keep bringing them in for others to eat, who take no heed to his son though he is in the house, and fear not the wrath of heaven, but are already eager to divide Ulysses' property among them because he has been away so long.†
Book 20

Thus spoke Antinous, but Telemachus heeded him not.
Book 20 *

heeded = paid close attention to; or did what was suggested -- especially with regard to a warning or other advice

Telemachus gave him no heed, but sate silently watching his father, expecting every moment that he would begin his attack upon the suitors.†
Book 20

There you lay in the whirling clouds of dust, all huge and hugely, heedless now of your chivalry.†
Book 24

Definition:

(heed)
pay close attention to; or to do what is suggested -- especially with regard to a warning or other advice