All 5 Uses of
redress
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- And now had Greece eternal fame acquired, And frighted Troy within her walls, retired, Had not sage Helenus her state redress'd, Taught by the gods that moved his sacred breast.†
Book 6 *
- But if all this, relentless, thou disdain, If honour and if interest plead in vain, Yet some redress to suppliant Greece afford, And be, amongst her guardian gods, adored.†
Book 9
- Though yet thy state require redress (he cries) Depart I must: what horrors strike my eyes!†
Book 15
- Thy country slighted in her last distress, What friend, what man, from thee shall hope redress?†
Book 16
- When my proud mother hurl'd me from the sky, (My awkward form, it seems, displeased her eye,) She, and Eurynome, my griefs redress'd, And soft received me on their silver breast.†
Book 18
Definition:
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(redress) fix a problem; or make up for a wrong