All 8 Uses of
distinct
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Our author's work is a wild paradise, where, if we cannot see all the beauties so distinctly as in an ordered garden, it is only because the number of them is infinitely greater.†
Book Pref.distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- For example: the main characters of Ulysses and Nestor consist in wisdom; and they are distinct in this, that the wisdom of one is artificial and various, of the other natural, open, and regular.†
Book Pref.distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- Homer, therefore, complying with the custom of his country, used such distinctive additions as better agreed with poetry.†
Book Pref. *distinctive = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate -- sometimes to indicate a difference that is excellent
- Hesiod, dividing the world into its different ages, has placed a fourth age, between the brazen and the iron one, of "heroes distinct from other men; a divine race who fought at Thebes and Troy, are called demi-gods, and live by the care of Jupiter in the islands of the blessed."†
Book Pref.distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- What chief, or soldier, of the numerous band, Or bravely fights, or ill obeys command, When thus distinct they war, shall soon be known And what the cause of Ilion not o'erthrown; If fate resists, or if our arms are slow, If gods above prevent, or men below.†
Book 2
- Now o'er the fields, dejected, he surveys From thousand Trojan fires the mounting blaze; Hears in the passing wind their music blow, And marks distinct the voices of the foe.†
Book 10
- His left arm high opposed the shining shield: His right beneath, the cover'd pole-axe held; (An olive's cloudy grain the handle made, Distinct with studs, and brazen was the blade;) This on the helm discharged a noble blow; The plume dropp'd nodding to the plain below, Shorn from the crest.†
Book 13
- Who first the jointed armour shall explore, And stain his rival's mail with issuing gore, The sword Asteropaeus possess'd of old, (A Thracian blade, distinct with studs of gold,) Shall pay the stroke, and grace the striker's side: These arms in common let the chiefs divide: For each brave champion, when the combat ends, A sumptuous banquet at our tents attends.†
Book 23