All 6 Uses of
egress
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Cowper)
- Stranger! thou must be ideot born, or weak At least in intellect, or thy delight Is in distress and mis'ry, who delay'st To leave this island, and no egress hence Canst find, although thy famish'd people faint.†
Book 4
- So saying, her egress swift beside the bolt She made, and melted into air.†
Book 4 *
- Alas! though Jove hath given me to behold, 490 Unhoped, the land again, and I have pass'd, Furrowing my way, these num'rous waves, there seems No egress from the hoary flood for me.†
Book 5
- Then groan'd the Cyclops wrung with pain and grief, And, fumbling, with stretch'd hands, removed the rock From his cave's mouth, which done, he sat him down 490 Spreading his arms athwart the pass, to stop Our egress with his flocks abroad; so dull, It seems, he held me, and so ill-advised.†
Book 9
- Ulysses bade his faithful swine-herd watch That egress, station'd near it, for it own'd One sole approach; then Agelaues loud Exhorting all the suitors, thus exclaim'd.†
Book 22
- The postern and the gate[104] Neighbour too near each other, and to force The narrow egress were a vain attempt; One valiant man might thence repulse us all.†
Book 22
Definition:
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(egress) to exit