All 50 Uses of
cease
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Nor will the god's awaken'd fury cease, But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase, Till the great king, without a ransom paid, To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid.†
Book 1cease = stop or discontinue
- This said, he ceased.†
Book 1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- At this they ceased: the stern debate expired: The chiefs in sullen majesty retired.†
Book 1 *
- So small their number, that if wars were ceased, And Greece triumphant held a general feast, All rank'd by tens, whole decades when they dine Must want a Trojan slave to pour the wine.†
Book 2
- At length the tumult sinks, the noises cease, And a still silence lulls the camp to peace.†
Book 2cease = stop or discontinue
- Cease to consult, the time for action calls; War, horrid war, approaches to your walls!†
Book 2
- Thus with a lasting league your toils may cease, And Troy possess her fertile fields in peace; Thus may the Greeks review their native shore, Much famed for generous steeds, for beauty more.†
Book 3
- (112) Each hardy Greek, and valiant Trojan knight, So dreadful late, and furious for the fight, Now rest their spears, or lean upon their shields; Ceased is the war, and silent all the fields†
Book 3ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Thus ceased the king, and thus the fair replied: "Before thy presence, father, I appear, With conscious shame and reverential fear.†
Book 3
- Thus with a lasting league our toils may cease, And Troy possess her fertile fields in peace: So shall the Greeks review their native shore, Much famed for generous steeds, for beauty more.†
Book 3cease = stop or discontinue
- let division cease, And joyful nations join in leagues of peace.†
Book 3
- Cease to provoke me, lest I make thee more The world's aversion, than their love before; Now the bright prize for which mankind engage, Than, the sad victim, of the public rage.†
Book 3
- The prince replies: "Ah cease, divinely fair, Nor add reproaches to the wounds I bear; This day the foe prevail'd by Pallas' power: We yet may vanquish in a happier hour: There want not gods to favour us above; But let the business of our life be love: These softer moments let delights employ, And kind embraces snatch the hasty joy.†
Book 3
- He ceased; his army's loud applauses rise, And the long shout runs echoing through the skies.†
Book 3ceased = stopped or discontinued
- See ready Pallas waits thy high commands To raise in arms the Greek and Phrygian bands; Their sudden friendship by her arts may cease, And the proud Trojans first infringe the peace.†
Book 4cease = stop or discontinue
- O son of Tydeus, cease!†
Book 5
- These ills shall cease, whene'er by Jove's decree We crown the bowl to heaven and liberty: While the proud foe his frustrate triumphs mourns, And Greece indignant through her seas returns.†
Book 6
- Yet ceased not Hector thus; but stooping down, In his strong hand up-heaved a flinty stone, Black, craggy, vast: to this his force he bends; Full on the brazen boss the stone descends; The hollow brass resounded with the shock: Then Ajax seized the fragment of a rock, Applied each nerve, and swinging round on high, With force tempestuous, let the ruin fly; The huge stone thundering through his buckler broke: His slacken'd knees received the numbing stroke; Great Hector falls extended on the field, His bulk supporting on the shatter'd shield: Nor wanted heavenly aid: Apollo's might Confirm'd his sinews, and restored to fight.†
Book 7ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Let him, who first provoked our chiefs to fight, Let him demand the sanction of the night; If first he ask'd it, I content obey, And cease the strife when Hector shows the way.†
Book 7cease = stop or discontinue
- Yet AEgae, Helice, thy power obey,(195) And gifts unceasing on thine altars lay.†
Book 8unceasing = not stopping or discontinuingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unceasing means not and reverses the meaning of ceasing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- She ceased, and Juno rein'd the steeds with care: (Heaven's awful empress, Saturn's other heir:) Pallas, meanwhile, her various veil unbound, With flowers adorn'd, with art immortal crown'd; The radiant robe her sacred fingers wove Floats in rich waves, and spreads the court of Jove.†
Book 8ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Nor shall great Hector cease the rage of fight, The navy flaming, and thy Greeks in flight, Even till the day when certain fates ordain That stern Achilles (his Patroclus slain) Shall rise in vengeance, and lay waste the plain.†
Book 8cease = stop or discontinue
- He ceased; the Greeks loud acclamations raise, And voice to voice resounds Tydides' praise.†
Book 9ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The king of men, on public counsels bent, Convened the princes in his ample tent, Each seized a portion of the kingly feast, But stay'd his hand when thirst and hunger ceased.†
Book 9
- Patroclus only of the royal train, Placed in his tent, attends the lofty strain: Full opposite he sat, and listen'd long, In silence waiting till he ceased the song.†
Book 9
- The son of Peleus ceased: the chiefs around In silence wrapt, in consternation drown'd, Attend the stern reply.†
Book 9
- He ceased; then order'd for the sage's bed A warmer couch with numerous carpets spread.†
Book 9
- and our answer bear, The glorious combat is no more my care; Not till, amidst yon sinking navy slain, The blood of Greeks shall dye the sable main; Not till the flames, by Hector's fury thrown, Consume your vessels, and approach my own; Just there, the impetuous homicide shall stand, There cease his battle, and there feel our hand.†
Book 9cease = stop or discontinue
- Ulysses ceased: the great Achaian host, With sorrow seized, in consternation lost, Attend the stern reply.†
Book 9ceased = stopped or discontinued
- While unresolved the son of Tydeus stands, Pallas appears, and thus her chief commands: "Enough, my son; from further slaughter cease, Regard thy safety, and depart in peace; Haste to the ships, the gotten spoils enjoy, Nor tempt too far the hostile gods of Troy."†
Book 10cease = stop or discontinue
- The closing flesh that instant ceased to glow, The wound to torture, and the blood to flow.†
Book 11ceased = stopped or discontinued
- 'Tis yours to save us, if you cease to fear; Flight, more than shameful, is destructive here.†
Book 13cease = stop or discontinue
- Here cease thy fury: and, the chiefs and kings Convoked to council, weigh the sum of things.†
Book 13
- To Jove's glad omen all the Grecians rise, And hail, with shouts, his progress through the skies: Far-echoing clamours bound from side to side; They ceased; and thus the chief of Troy replied: "From whence this menace, this insulting strain?†
Book 13ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Cease we at length to waste our blood in vain, And launch what ships lie nearest to the main; Leave these at anchor, till the coming night: Then, if impetuous Troy forbear the fight, Bring all to sea, and hoist each sail for flight.†
Book 14cease = stop or discontinue
- For strife, I hear, has made the union cease, Which held so long that ancient pair in peace.†
Book 14
- I visit these, to whose indulgent cares I owe the nursing of my tender years: For strife, I hear, has made that union cease Which held so long that ancient pair in peace.†
Book 14
- She ceased; and, smiling with superior love, Thus answer'd mild the cloud-compelling Jove: "Nor god nor mortal shall our joys behold, Shaded with clouds, and circumfused in gold; Not even the sun, who darts through heaven his rays, And whose broad eye the extended earth surveys."†
Book 14ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Cease then thy offspring's death unjust to call; Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.†
Book 15cease = stop or discontinue
- He ceased; the Fates suppress'd his labouring breath, And his eyes darken'd with the shades of death.†
Book 16ceased = stopped or discontinued
- cease; this heaven-defended wall Defies thy lance; not fated yet to fall; Thy friend, thy greater far, it shall withstand, Troy shall not stoop even to Achilles' hand.†
Book 16cease = stop or discontinue
- cease, and know the powers divine!†
Book 16
- but cease to mourn: For not by you shall Priam's son be borne High on the splendid car: one glorious prize He rashly boasts: the rest our will denies.†
Book 17
- at our board to share The genial rites, and hospitable fare; While I the labours of the forge forego, And bid the roaring bellows cease to blow.†
Book 18
- Then ceased for ever, by the Furies tied, His fateful voice.†
Book 19ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Cease then—Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might.†
Book 20cease = stop or discontinue
- Stay, and the furious flood shall cease to rave 'Tis not thy fate to glut his angry wave.†
Book 21
- He ceased; wide conflagration blazing round; The bubbling waters yield a hissing sound.†
Book 21ceased = stopped or discontinued
- this day our labours cease, And conquest blazes with full beams on Greece.†
Book 22cease = stop or discontinue
- one constant state Of lasting rancour and eternal hate: No thought but rage, and never-ceasing strife, Till death extinguish rage, and thought, and life.†
Book 22ceasing = stopping or discontinuing
Definitions:
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(1)
(cease) to stop or discontinue
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Note that the expression, cease fire means to stop doing battle such as firing funs at each other. Similarly, the noun, cease-fire, is a state of having stopped doing battle.