All 6 Uses of
envoy
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Edward)
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The belt was lifted up, and from the wound
He wip'd the clotted blood: beside the car
The Goddess stood, and touch'd the yoke, and said:
"Little like Tydeus' self is Tydeus' son:
Low was his stature, but his spirit was high:
And ev'n when I from combat rashly wag'd
Would fain have kept him back, what time in Thebes
He found himself, an envoy and alone,
Without support, among the Thebans all,
I counsell'd him in peace to share the feast:
But by his own impetuous courage led,
He challenged all the Thebans to contend
With him in wrestling, and o'erthrew them all
With ease;†Chpt 1.5envoy = representative sent on a mission
- The envoys forward stepp'd, Ulysses first,
And stood before him; from his couch, amaz'd,
And holding still his lyre, Achilles sprang,
Leaving the seat whereon they found him plac'd;
And at their entrance rose Patroclus too:
Waving his hand, Achilles, swift of foot,
Addressed them: "Welcome, friends!†Chpt 2.9envoys = representatives sent on a mission
- When to Atrides' tent the envoys came,
The chiefs, uprising, pledg'd them one by one
In golden goblets; then their tidings ask'd.†Chpt 2.9 *
- Him following, thus the brave Tydides pray'd:
"My voice too, child of Jove, undaunted, hear;
And be with me, as with my father erst,
The godlike Tydeus, when to Thebes he went,
An envoy, in advance; and left behind,
Upon Asopus' banks the mail-clad Greeks.†Chpt 2.10envoy = representative sent on a mission
- To whom Earth-shaking Neptune thus replied:
"Immortal Iris, weighty are thy words,
And in good season spoken; and 'tis well
When envoys are by sound discretion led.†Chpt 2.15envoys = representatives sent on a mission
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The son of Copreus, whom Eurystheus sent
His envoy to the might of Hercules;†Chpt 2.15envoy = representative sent on a mission
Definitions:
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(1)
(envoy) a representative sent on a mission -- often representing a government
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, envoy can reference a specific level of minister in the UK or a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.