5 uses
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Definition
to soothe (make something less unpleasant or frightening)
- What power divine shall Hector's wrath assuage?Book 8 (62% in)
- Soon shall the fair the sable ship ascend, And some deputed prince the charge attend: This Creta's king, or Ajax shall fulfil, Or wise Ulysses see perform'd our will; Or, if our royal pleasure shall ordain, Achilles' self conduct her o'er the main; Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage."Book 1 (28% in)
- E'en hell's grim king Alcides' power confess'd, The shaft found entrance in his iron breast; To Jove's high palace for a cure he fled, Pierced in his own dominions of the dead; Where Paeon, sprinkling heavenly balm around, Assuaged the glowing pangs, and closed the wound.Book 5 (45% in)
- Fain would my heart, which err'd through frantic rage, The wrathful chief and angry gods assuage.Book 9 (21% in)
- These words the hero's angry mind assuage: Then fierce they mingle where the thickest rage.Book 13 (93% in)
There are no more uses of "assuage" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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