All 10 Uses of
compassion
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- He said: compassion touch'd the hero's heart He stood, suspended with the lifted dart: As pity pleaded for his vanquish'd prize, Stern Agamemnon swift to vengeance flies, And, furious, thus: "Oh impotent of mind!†
Book 6 *compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- His fate compassion in the victor bred; Stern as he was, he yet revered the dead, His radiant arms preserved from hostile spoil, And laid him decent on the funeral pile; Then raised a mountain where his bones were burn'd, The mountain-nymphs the rural tomb adorn'd, Jove's sylvan daughters bade their elms bestow A barren shade, and in his honour grow.†
Book 6
- The soften'd chief with kind compassion view'd, And dried the falling drops, and thus pursued: "Andromache!†
Book 6
- Now be thy rage, thy fatal rage, resign'd; A cruel heart ill suits a manly mind: The gods (the only great, and only wise) Are moved by offerings, vows, and sacrifice; Offending man their high compassion wins, And daily prayers atone for daily sins.†
Book 9
- Can then the sons of Greece (the sage rejoin'd) Excite compassion in Achilles' mind?†
Book 11
- Divine compassion touch'd Patroclus' breast, Who, sighing, thus his bleeding friend address'd: "Ah, hapless leaders of the Grecian host!†
Book 11
- Divine Pelides, with compassion moved.†
Book 16
- Such ruin theirs, and such compassion mine.†
Book 21
- Frugal compassion!†
Book 22
- Priam finds Achilles at his table, casts himself at his feet, and begs for the body of his son: Achilles, moved with compassion, grants his request, detains him one night in his tent, and the next morning sends him home with the body: the Trojans run out to meet him.†
Book 24