All 23 Uses of

vaunted
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)

O give my lance to reach the Trojan knight, Whose arrow wounds the chief thou guard'st in fight; And lay the boaster grovelling on the shore, That vaunts these eyes shall view the light no more.†
Book 5

vaunts = extravagantly praises or boasts

Mistaken vaunter!†
Book 5

vaunter = someone who extravagantly praises or boasts

Now, now thy country calls her wonted friends, And the proud vaunt in just derision ends.†
Book 5 *

vaunt = to extravagantly praise or boast

While every Trojan thus, and every aid, The advice of wise Polydamas obey'd, Asius alone, confiding in his car, His vaunted coursers urged to meet the war.†
Book 12

vaunted = extravagantly praised

Urge those who stand, and those who faint, excite; Drown Hector's vaunts in loud exhorts of fight; Conquest, not safety, fill the thoughts of all; Seek not your fleet, but sally from the wall; So Jove once more may drive their routed train, And Troy lie trembling in her walls again.†
Book 12

vaunts = extravagantly praises or boasts

On other works though Troy with fury fall, And pour her armies o'er our batter'd wall: There Greece has strength: but this, this part o'erthrown, Her strength were vain; I dread for you alone: Here Hector rages like the force of fire, Vaunts of his gods, and calls high Jove his sire: If yet some heavenly power your breast excite, Breathe in your hearts, and string your arms to fight, Greece yet may live, her threaten'd fleet maintain: And Hector's force, and Jove's own aid, be vain.†
Book 13

Swift as a whirlwind rushing to the fleet, He finds the lance-famed Idomen of Crete, His pensive brow the generous care express'd With which a wounded soldier touch'd his breast, Whom in the chance of war a javelin tore, And his sad comrades from the battle bore; Him to the surgeons of the camp he sent: That office paid, he issued from his tent Fierce for the fight: to whom the god begun, In Thoas' voice, Andraemon's valiant son, Who ruled where Calydon's white rocks arise, And Pleuron's chalky cliffs emblaze the skies: "Where's now the imperious vaunt, the daring boast, Of Greece victorious, and proud Ilion lost?"†
Book 13

vaunt = to extravagantly praise or boast

The king consented, by his vaunts abused; The king consented, but the fates refused.†
Book 13

vaunts = extravagantly praises or boasts

still he vaunts, and threats the fleet with fires, While stern Achilles in his wrath retires.†
Book 14

vaunts = extravagantly praises or boasts

Jove is with us; I saw his hand, but now, From the proud archer strike his vaunted bow: Indulgent Jove!†
Book 15

vaunted = extravagantly praised

And if to this my lance thy fate be given, Vain are thy vaunts; success is still from heaven: This, instant, sends thee down to Pluto's coast; Mine is the glory, his thy parting ghost.†
Book 16

vaunts = extravagantly praises or boasts

Not thus the lion glories in his might, Nor panther braves his spotted foe in fight, Nor thus the boar (those terrors of the plain;) Man only vaunts his force, and vaunts in vain.†
Book 17

Not thus the lion glories in his might, Nor panther braves his spotted foe in fight, Nor thus the boar (those terrors of the plain;) Man only vaunts his force, and vaunts in vain.†
Book 17

Of old, she stalk'd amid the bright abodes; And Jove himself, the sire of men and gods, The world's great ruler, felt her venom'd dart; Deceived by Juno's wiles, and female art: For when Alcmena's nine long months were run, And Jove expected his immortal son, To gods and goddesses the unruly joy He show'd, and vaunted of his matchless boy: 'From us, (he said) this day an infant springs, Fated to rule, and born a king of kings.'†
Book 19

vaunted = extravagantly praised

Then lift thy weapon for a noble blow, Nor fear the vaunting of a mortal foe.†
Book 20

vaunting = extravagantly praising or boasting

Think, Hector leads you on; Nor dread the vaunts of Peleus' haughty son.†
Book 20

vaunts = extravagantly praises or boasts

To the forbidden field he takes his flight, In the first folly of a youthful knight, To vaunt his swiftness wheels around the plain, But vaunts not long, with all his swiftness slain: Struck where the crossing belts unite behind, And golden rings the double back-plate join'd Forth through the navel burst the thrilling steel; And on his knees with piercing shrieks he fell; The rushing entrails pour'd upon the ground His hands collect; and darkness wraps him round.†
Book 20

vaunt = to extravagantly praise or boast

To the forbidden field he takes his flight, In the first folly of a youthful knight, To vaunt his swiftness wheels around the plain, But vaunts not long, with all his swiftness slain: Struck where the crossing belts unite behind, And golden rings the double back-plate join'd Forth through the navel burst the thrilling steel; And on his knees with piercing shrieks he fell; The rushing entrails pour'd upon the ground His hands collect; and darkness wraps him round.†
Book 20

vaunts = extravagantly praises or boasts

How durst thou vaunt thy watery progeny?†
Book 21

vaunt = to extravagantly praise or boast

Silent he heard the queen of woods upbraid: Not so Saturnia bore the vaunting maid: But furious thus: "What insolence has driven Thy pride to face the majesty of heaven?†
Book 21

vaunting = extravagantly praising or boasting

Definition:

extravagantly praised or boasted