All 16 Uses of
perish
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Edward)
- But, Menelaus, deep will be my grief, If thou shouldst perish, meeting thus thy fate.†
Chpt 1.4
- Insatiate Mars his son Isander slew In battle with the valiant Solymi: His daughter perish'd by Diana's wrath.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- …ranks prepar'd the wonted meal: But with the morning to the ships of Greece Idaeus took his way: in council there By Agamemnon's leading ship he found The Grecian chiefs, the ministers of Mars: And 'mid them all the clear-voic'd herald spoke: "Ye sons of Atreus, and ye chiefs of Greece, From Priam, and the gallant sons of Troy, I come, to bear, if ye be pleas'd to hear, The words of Paris, cause of all this war: The goods which hither in his hollow ships (Would he had perish'd rather!†
Chpt 1.7
- And much my mind misgives me, lest the Gods His threats fulfil, and we be fated here To perish, far from Argos' grassy plains.†
Chpt 2.9
- Such once was I 'mid men, while yet I was; Now to himself alone Achilles keeps His valour; yet hereafter, when the Greeks Have perish'd all, remorse shall touch his soul.†
Chpt 2.11
- To whom with prudent speech, Eurypylus: "No source, Heav'n-born Patroclus, have the Greeks, Of aid, but all must perish by their ships: For in the ships lie all our bravest late, By spear or arrow struck, by Trojan hands; And fiercer, hour by hour, their onset grows.†
Chpt 2.11
- For would to Heav'n I were as well assur'd I were the son of aegis-bearing Jove, Born of imperial Juno, and myself In equal honour with Apollo held Or blue-ey'd Pallas, as I am assur'd This day is fraught with ill to all the Greeks: Thou 'mid the rest shalt perish, if thou dare My spear encounter, which thy dainty skin Shall rend; and slain beside the ships, thy flesh Shall glut the dogs and carrion birds of Troy."†
Chpt 2.13
- Nor careless was the watch by Neptune kept: With them, in likeness of an aged man, He went, and Agamemnon, Atreus' son, By the right hand he took, and thus address'd: "O son of Atreus, great is now the joy With which Achilles' savage breast is fill'd, Who sees the slaughter and the rout of Greeks: For nought he has of heart, no, not a whit: But perish he, accursed of the Gods!†
Chpt 2.14
- Ajax, on th' other side, address'd the Greeks: "Shame on ye, Greeks! this very hour decides If we must perish, or be sav'd, and ward Destruction from our ships; and can ye hope That each, if Hector of the glancing helm Shall burn our ships, on foot can reach his home?†
Chpt 2.15
- Thus she; the Sire of Gods and men complied: But to the ground some drops of blood let fall, In honour of his son, whom fate decreed, Far from his country, on the fertile plains Of Troy to perish by Patroclus' hand.†
Chpt 2.16
- …at spring-tide in the cattle-sheds Around the milk-cans swarm the buzzing flies, While the warm milk is frothing in the pail; So swarm'd they round the dead; nor Jove the while Turn'd from the stubborn fight his piercing glance; But still look'd down with gaze intent, and mus'd Upon Patroclus' coming fate, in doubt, If he too there beside Sarpedon slain, Should perish by illustrious Hector's hand, Spoil'd of his arms; or yet be spared awhile To swell the labours of the battle-field.†
Chpt 2.16
- Had I to deal with twenty such as thee, They all should perish, vanquish'd by my spear: Me fate hath slain, and Phoebus; and, of men, Euphorbus; thou wast but the third to strike.†
Chpt 2.16
- Let us then interpose to guard his life; Lest, if Achilles slay him, Saturn's son Be mov'd to anger; for his destiny Would have him live; lest, heirless, from the earth Should perish quite the race of Dardanus; By Saturn's son the best-belov'd of all His sons, to him by mortal women born.†
Chpt 2.20
- Ye all shall perish, till Patroclus' death Be fully aveng'd, and slaughter of the Greeks, Whom, in my absence, by the ships ye slew."†
Chpt 2.21
- For this thy favour dost thou show to Troy; And dost not rather join thy force to ours, That down upon their knees the Trojans all Should perish, with their babes and matrons chaste.†
Chpt 2.21
- Thus shall they say; for me, 'twere better far, Or from Achilles, slain in open fight, Back to return in triumph, or myself To perish nobly in my country's cause.†
Chpt 2.22
Definition:
-
(perish) to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to existeditor's notes: You may encounter an informal expression, "Perish the thought." It means that the speaker hopes the thought will cease to exist and the thing it represents will never happen.