All 14 Uses of
lament
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- He killed many Trojans and got much information before he reached the Argive camp, for all which things the Trojan women made lamentation, but for my own part I was glad, for my heart was beginning to yearn after my home, and I was unhappy about the wrong that Venus had done me in taking me over there, away from my country, my girl, and my lawful wedded husband, who is indeed by no means deficient either in person or understanding.†
Book 4
- From the moment that we had done supper and Demodocus began to sing, our guest has been all the time groaning and lamenting.†
Book 8
- When at last we got to the island where we had left the rest of our ships, we found our comrades lamenting us, and anxiously awaiting our return.†
Book 9
- Then I awoke, and knew not whether to throw myself into the sea or to live on and make the best of it; but I bore it, covered myself up, and lay down in the ship, while the men lamented bitterly as the fierce winds bore our fleet back to the Aeolian island.†
Book 10
- When we reached the sea shore, weeping and lamenting our fate, Circe brought the ram and the ewe, and we made them fast hard by the ship.†
Book 10
- after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites.
Book 12 *lamented = expressed grief for
- "Ulysses," said Minerva, "noble son of Laertes, think how you can lay hands on these disreputable people who have been lording it in your house these three years, courting your wife and making wedding presents to her, while she does nothing but lament your absence, giving hope and sending encouraging messages (endnote 123) to every one of them, but meaning the very opposite of all she says."†
Book 13
- On these words the old woman covered her face with her hands; she began to weep and made lamentation saying, "My dear child, I cannot think whatever I am to do with you.†
Book 19
- As for myself, heaven has given me a life of such unmeasurable woe, that even by day when I am attending to my duties and looking after the servants, I am still weeping and lamenting during the whole time; then, when night comes, and we all of us go to bed, I lie awake thinking, and my heart becomes a prey to the most incessant and cruel tortures.†
Book 19
- She then went upstairs to her own room, not alone, but attended by her maidens, and when there, she lamented her dear husband till Minerva shed sweet sleep over her eyelids.†
Book 19
- How comes it that you are so lamentably less valiant now that you are on your own ground, face to face with the suitors in your own house?†
Book 22
- On this, Ulysses rose from his comfortable bed and said to Penelope, "Wife, we have both of us had our full share of troubles, you, here, in lamenting my absence, and I in being prevented from getting home though I was longing all the time to do so.†
Book 23
- The nine muses also came and lifted up their sweet voices in lament—calling and answering one another; there was not an Argive but wept for pity of the dirge they chaunted.†
Book 24
- But cease your sighing and lamentation—we have no time to lose, for I should tell you that I have been killing the suitors in my house, to punish them for their insolence and crimes.†
Book 24
Definition:
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(lament) to express grief or regret