All 5 Uses of
entreat
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Edward)
- The priest being refused, and insolently dismissed by Agamemnon, entreats for vengeance from his god, who inflicts a pestilence on the Greeks.†
Chpt 1.1 *entreats = asks earnestly
- Helenus, the chief augur of Troy, commands Hector to return to the city, in order to appoint a solemn procession of the Queen and the Trojan matrons to the temple of Minerva, to entreat her to remove Diomed from the fight.†
Chpt 1.5entreat = ask earnestly
- Patroclus (in pursuance of the request of Nestor in the eleventh book) entreats Achilles to suffer him to go to the assistance of the Greeks with Achilles' troops and armour.†
Chpt 2.15entreats = asks earnestly
- Hecuba joins his entreaties, but in vain.†
Chpt 2.21entreaties = earnest requests
- Scarce in his anguish could the crowd restrain
The old man from issuing through the Dardan gates;
Low in the dust he roll'd, imploring all,
Entreating by his name each sev'ral man:
"Forbear, my friends; though sorrowing, stay me not;
Leave me to reach alone the Grecian ships,
And there implore this man of violence,
This haughty chief, if haply he my years
May rev'rence, and have pity on my age.†Chpt 2.22entreating = asking earnestly
Definition:
to ask -- especially while trying hard to overcome resistance