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Definition
decline — typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- Thus an ox in fetters tied, While death's strong pangs distend his labouring side, His bulk enormous on the field displays; His heaving heart beats thick as ebbing life decays.Book 13 (69% in)
- Courage may prompt; but, ebbing out his strength, Mere unsupported man must yield at length; Shrunk with dry famine, and with toils declined, The drooping body will desert the mind: But built anew with strength-conferring fare, With limbs and soul untamed, he tires a war.Book 19 (38% in)
There are no more uses of "ebb" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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