All 47 Uses of
yield
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Edward)
- Whom answer'd thus Achilles, swift of foot: "Goddess, I needs must yield to your commands, Indignant though I be—for so 'tis best; Who hears the Gods, of them his pray'rs are heard."
Chpt 1.1 (definition 1)yield = give in
- Yet, hear my words, I pray; in years, at least, Ye both must yield to me; and in times past I liv'd with men, and they despis'd me not, Abler in counsel, greater than yourselves.
Chpt 1.1 (definition 1)
- Each King or leader whom he found he thus With cheering words encourag'd and restrain'd: "O gallant friend, 'tis not for thee to yield, Like meaner men, to panic; but thyself Sit quiet, and the common herd restrain."
Chpt 1.2 (definition 1)yield = give in, give way, or give up
- Anchises' valiant son, AEneas, led The Dardans; him, 'mid Ida's jutting peaks, Immortal Venus to Anchises bore, A Goddess yielding to a mortal's love: With him, well skill'd in war, Archilochus And Acamas, Antenor's gallant sons.
Chpt 1.2 (definition 1)yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- Thus they; but Jove, unyielding, heard their pray'r.†
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1)
- Yet hear my words, and ponder what I say: If e'er, in times to come, my will should be Some city to destroy, inhabited By men beloved of thee, seek not to turn My wrath aside, but yield, as I do now, Consenting, but with heart that ill consents; For of all cities fair, beneath the sun And starry Heaven, the abode of mortal men, None to my soul was dear as sacred Troy, And Priam's self, and Priam's warrior race.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 2)
- But yield we each to other, I to thee, And thou to me; the other Gods will all By us be rul'd.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 2)
- Thoas approach'd, and from his breast withdrew The sturdy spear, and with his sharp-edg'd sword Across his waistband gave the mortal stroke: Yet could not touch his arms; for all around The Thracian warriors, with, their tufted crowns, Their long spears held before them, him, though stout, And strong, and valiant, kept at bay; perforce He yielded; and thus side by side were laid The two, the Thracian and th' Epeian chief; And round them many a valiant soldier lay.
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- To whom great Hector of the glancing helm: "Though kind thy wish, yet, Helen, ask me not To sit or rest; I cannot yield to thee: For to the succour of our friends I haste, Who feel my loss, and sorely need my aid.†
Chpt 1.6 (definition 1)
- He said, and with judicious counsel sway'd His brother's mind; he yielded to his words, And gladly his attendants doff'd his arms.
Chpt 1.7 (definition 1)yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Night is at hand; behoves us yield to night.†
Chpt 1.7 (definition 1)
- Night is at hand; behoves us yield to night.†
Chpt 1.7 (definition 1)
- Then yield we to the night; prepare the meal; Unyoke your horses, and before them place Their needful forage; from the city bring Oxen and sheep; the luscious wine provide; Bring bread from out our houses; and collect Good store of fuel, that the livelong night, E'en till the dawn of day, may broadly blaze Our num'rous watchfires, and illume the Heav'ns; Lest, e'en by night, the long-hair'd Greeks should seek O'er the broad bosom of the sea to fly, That so not unassail'd they may…†
Chpt 2.8 (definition 2)
- Then aged Nestor rose, and thus began: "Tydides, eminent thou art in war; And In the council thy compeers in age Must yield to thee; thy present words, no Greek Can censure, or gainsay; and yet the end Thou hast not reach'd, and object of debate."
Chpt 2.9 (definition 1)yield = give in
- But yield we now to th' influence of night: Prepare the meal; and let the sev'ral guards Be posted by the ditch, without the wall.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 2)
- This will I do, so he his wrath remit: Then let him yield (Pluto alone remains Unbending and inexorable; and thence Of all the Gods is most abhorr'd of men), To me submitting, as in royal pow'r Superior far, and more advanc'd in age."†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 2)
- …Before my angry sire, Amyntor, son Of Ormenus; a fair-hair'd concubine Cause of the quarrel; her my father lov'd, And by her love estrang'd, despis'd his wife, My mother; oft she pray'd me to seduce, To vex th' old man, my father's concubine; I yielded; he, suspecting, on my head A curse invok'd, and on the Furies call'd His curse to witness, that upon his knees No child, by me begotten, e'er should sit: His curse the Gods have heard, and ratified, Th' infernal King, and awful…
Chpt 2.9 (definition 1)yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- When he to anger yielded, which sometimes Swells in the bosom e'en of wisest men, Incens'd against his mother, he withdrew To Cleopatra fair, his wedded wife; (Marpessa her, Evenus' daughter, bore To Idas, strongest man of all who then Were living, who against Apollo's self For the neat-footed maiden bent his bow.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 2)
- His brother thus with counsels wise dismiss'd, The King to aged Nestor took his way: Him by his tent and dark-ribb'd ship he found On a soft couch; beside him lay his arms, His shield, two lances, and a glitt'ring helm: There lay the rich-wrought belt the old man wore, When to the battle, arm'd, he led his troops; For nought to age's weakness would he yield.†
Chpt 2.10 (definition 2)
- As when two boars, upon the mountain side, Await th' approaching din of men and dogs, Then sideways rushing, snap the wood around, Ripp'd from the roots; loud clash their clatt'ring tusks, Till to the huntsman's spear they yield their lives; So clatter'd on those champions' brass-clad breasts The hostile weapons; stubbornly they fought, Relying on their strength, and friends above: For from the well-built tow'rs huge stones were hurl'd By those who for themselves, their tents and…†
Chpt 2.12 (definition 2)
- Then at the parapet, with stalwart hand, Sarpedon tugg'd; and yielding to his force Down fell the block entire; the wall laid bare, To many at once the breach gave open way.
Chpt 2.12 (definition 1)yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- Great Ajax Telamon to none would yield, Of mortal birth, by earthly food sustain'd, By spear or pond'rous stone assailable; In hand to hand encounter, scarce surpass'd By Peleus' son Achilles; though with him In speed of foot he might not hope to vie.†
Chpt 2.13 (definition 2)
- He, with proud step, protected by his shield, On ev'ry side the hostile ranks survey'd, If signs of yielding he might trace; but they Unshaken stood; and with like haughty mien, Ajax at Hector thus defiance hurl'd: "Draw nearer, mighty chief; why seek to scare Our valiant Greeks? we boast ourselves of war Not wholly unskill'd, though now the hand of Jove Lies heavy on us with the scourge of Heav'n.†
Chpt 2.13 (definition 2)
- He said, and vanish'd 'mid the tribes of men: But fir'd with keener zeal to aid the Greeks, Neptune sprang forth in front, and call'd aloud: "Again, ye Greeks, shall our remissness yield The victory to Hector, Priam's son, To seize our ships, and endless glory gain?†
Chpt 2.14 (definition 2)
- I yield, but with indignant sense of wrong.
Chpt 2.15 (definition 1) *yield = give up (surrender), or give in
- Yet thus 'tis better, both for me and him, That, though indignant, to my will he yields; For to compel him were no easy task.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 2)
- Let us not tamely yield, if yield we must, Our well-built ships, but nobly dare the fight.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 2)
- Let us not tamely yield, if yield we must, Our well-built ships, but nobly dare the fight.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 2)
- As in th' autumnal season, when the earth With weight of rain is saturate; when Jove Pours down his fiercest storms in wrath to men, Who in their courts unrighteous judgments pass, And justice yield to lawless violence, The wrath of Heav'n despising; ev'ry stream Is brimming o'er: the hills in gullies deep Are by the torrents seam'd, which, rushing down From the high mountains to the dark-blue sea, With groans and tumult urge their headlong course, Wasting the works of man; so urg'd…†
Chpt 2.16 (definition 1)
- The head, with grasp unyielding, Hector held; Patroclus seiz'd the foot; and, crowding round, Trojans and Greeks in stubborn conflict clos'd.†
Chpt 2.16 (definition 1)
- As when a lion hath in fight o'erborne A tusked boar, when on the mountain top They two have met, in all their pride of strength, Both parch'd with thirst, around a scanty spring; And vanquish'd by the lion's force, the boar Hath yielded, gasping; so Menoetius' son, Great deeds achiev'd, at length beneath the spear Of noble Hector yielded up his life; Who o'er the vanquish'd, thus exulting, spoke: "Patroclus, but of late thou mad'st thy boast To raze our city walls, and in your ships…†
Chpt 2.16 (definition 2)
- …have met, in all their pride of strength, Both parch'd with thirst, around a scanty spring; And vanquish'd by the lion's force, the boar Hath yielded, gasping; so Menoetius' son, Great deeds achiev'd, at length beneath the spear Of noble Hector yielded up his life; Who o'er the vanquish'd, thus exulting, spoke: "Patroclus, but of late thou mad'st thy boast To raze our city walls, and in your ships To bear away to your far-distant land, Their days of freedom lost, our Trojan dames: Fool…†
Chpt 2.16 (definition 2) *
- Nor, on his side, was Panthous' noble son Unmindful of the slain; but, standing near, The warlike Menelaus thus address'd: "Illustrious son of Atreus, Heav'n-born chief, Quit thou the dead; yield up the bloody spoils: For, of the Trojans and their fam'd Allies, Mine was the hand that in the stubborn fight First struck Patroclus; leave me then to wear Among the men of Troy my honours due, Lest by my spear thou lose thy cherish'd life."†
Chpt 2.17 (definition 2)
- He said, and struck the centre of the shield, But broke not through; against the stubborn brass The point was bent; then with a pray'r to Jove The son of Atreus in his turn advanc'd; And, backward as he stepp'd, below his throat Took aim, and pressing hard with stalwart hand Drove through the yielding neck the pond'rous spear: Thund'ring he fell, and loud his armour rang.†
Chpt 2.17 (definition 2)
- Achilles, answ'ring, spoke in passionate grief: "Would I might die this hour, who fail'd to save My comrade slain! far from his native land He died, sore needing my protecting arm; And I, who ne'er again must see my home, Nor to Patroclus, nor the many Greeks Whom Hector's hand hath slain, have render'd aid; But idly here I sit, cumb'ring the ground: I, who amid the Greeks no equal own In fight; to others, in debate, I yield."
Chpt 2.18 (definition 1)yield = give in, give way, or give up
- To whom Ulysses, sage in council, thus: "O son of Peleus, noblest of the Greeks, How far, Achilles, thou surpassest me In deeds of arms, I know: but thou must yield To me in counsel, for my years are more, And my experience greater far than thine: Then to my words incline a patient ear."
Chpt 2.19 (definition 1)yield = give in
- For Peleus or to death, methinks, e'en now Hath yielded, or not far from death remov'd, Lives on in sorrow, bow'd by gloomy age, Expecting day by day the messenger Who bears the mournful tidings of my death."†
Chpt 2.19 (definition 2)
- He said, and hurl'd against the mighty shield His brazen spear; loud rang the weapon's point; And at arm's length Achilles held the shield With his broad hand, in fear that through its folds AEneas' spear would easy passage find; Blind fool! forgetful that the glorious gifts Bestow'd by Gods, are not with ease o'ercome, Nor yield before th' assaults of mortal men.†
Chpt 2.20 (definition 2)
- Me too thou see'st, how stalwart, tall, and fair, Of noble sire, and Goddess-mother born: Yet must I yield to death and stubborn fate, Whene'er, at morn, or noon, or eve, the spear Or arrow from the bow may reach my life."†
Chpt 2.21 (definition 1)
- Achilles so th' advancing wave o'ertook, Though great his speed; but man must yield to Gods, Oft as Achilles, swift of foot, essay'd To turn and stand, and know if all the Gods, Who dwell in Heav'n, were leagued to daunt his soul So oft the Heav'n-born River's mighty wave Above his shoulders dash'd; in deep distress He sprang on high; then rush'd the flood below, And bore him off his legs, and wore away The soil beneath his feet; then, groaning, thus, As up to Heav'n he look'd,…
Chpt 2.21 (definition 1)yield = give in
- …bore His well-wrought shield; and fiercely on his brow Nodded the four-plum'd helm, as on the breeze Floated the golden hairs, with which the crest By Vulcan's hand was thickly interlac'd; And as amid the stars' unnumber'd host, When twilight yields to night, one star appears, Hesper, the brightest star that shines in Heav'n, Gleam'd the sharp-pointed lance, which in his right Achilles pois'd, on godlike Hector's doom Intent, and scanning eagerly to see Where from attack his body least…†
Chpt 2.22 (definition 2)
- There levell'd he, as Hector onward rush'd; Right through the yielding neck the lance was driv'n, But sever'd not the windpipe, nor destroy'd His pow'r of speech; prone in the dust he fell; And o'er him, vaunting, thus Achilles spoke: "Hector, Patroclus stripping of his arms, Thy hope was that thyself wast safe; and I, Not present, brought no terror to thy soul: Fool! in the hollow ships I yet remain'd, I, his avenger, mightier far than he; I, who am now thy conqu'ror.†
Chpt 2.22 (definition 2)
- Be unfulfill'd my words! yet much I fear Lest my brave Hector be cut off alone, By great Achilles, from the walls of Troy, Chas'd to the plain, the desp'rate courage quench'd, Which ever led him from the gen'ral ranks Far in advance, and bade him yield to none."†
Chpt 2.22 (definition 1)
- To any other man of all the Greeks I scarce so much had yielded; but for that Thyself hast labour'd much, and much endur'd, Thou, thy good sire, and brother, in my cause: I yield me to thy pray'rs; and give, to boot, The mare, though mine of right; that these may know I am not of a harsh, unyielding mood."†
Chpt 2.23 (definition 2)
- To any other man of all the Greeks I scarce so much had yielded; but for that Thyself hast labour'd much, and much endur'd, Thou, thy good sire, and brother, in my cause: I yield me to thy pray'rs; and give, to boot, The mare, though mine of right; that these may know I am not of a harsh, unyielding mood."†
Chpt 2.23 (definition 2)
- To any other man of all the Greeks I scarce so much had yielded; but for that Thyself hast labour'd much, and much endur'd, Thou, thy good sire, and brother, in my cause: I yield me to thy pray'rs; and give, to boot, The mare, though mine of right; that these may know I am not of a harsh, unyielding mood."†
Chpt 2.23 (definition 1)
- The games were ended, and the multitude Amid the ships their sev'ral ways dispers'd: Some to their supper, some to gentle sleep Yielding, delighted; but Achilles still Mourn'd o'er his lov'd companion; not on him Lighted all-conqu'ring sleep, but to and fro Restless he toss'd, and on Patroclus thought, His vigour and his courage; all the deeds They two together had achiev'd; the toils, The perils they had undergone, amid The strife of warriors, and the angry waves.†
Chpt 2.24 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
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(2) (yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced