Both Uses of
stanch
in
The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers)
- For I have this stark wound, and mine arm is thoroughly pierced with sharp pains, nor can my blood be stanched, and by the wound is my shoulder burdened, and I cannot hold my spear firm, nor go and fight against the enemy.†
Book 16
- Straightway he made his pains to cease, and in the grievous wound stanched the black blood, and put courage into his heart.†
Book 16 *
Definition:
to stop the flow of a liquid (typically blood); or to stop anything that is harmful