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1 —1 use as in:
abide in the forest
Definition
to live in a place
or more rarely: to live with someone or something
or more rarely: to live with someone or something
- Meanwhile Thetis came to the house of Vulcan, imperishable, star-bespangled, fairest of the abodes in heaven, a house of bronze wrought by the lame god's own hands.Book 18 (59% in)
There are no more uses of "abide" flagged with this meaning in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler).
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- For Portheus had three noble sons, two of whom, Agrius and Melas, abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon.Book 14 (22% in)
- But Achilles abode at his ships and nursed his anger.Book 1 (80% in)
- But when the sun's glorious light had faded, they went home to bed, each in his own abode, which lame Vulcan with his consummate skill had fashioned for them.Book 1 (99% in)
- Meanwhile the two hosts lifted up their hands and prayed saying, "Father Jove, that rulest from Ida, most glorious in power, grant that he who first brought about this war between us may die, and enter the house of Hades, while we others remain at peace and abide by our oaths."Book 3 (71% in)
- He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a strong man's hand has reclaimed—even so were the dense phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.Book 5 (12% in)
- I have never seen you in battle until now, but you are daring beyond all others if you abide my onset.Book 6 (24% in)
- He now abides at the ships in anger with Agamemnon shepherd of his people, but there are many of us who are well able to face you; therefore begin the fight.Book 7 (48% in)
- To-morrow let him show his mettle, abide my spear if he dare.Book 8 (95% in)
- I have honour from Jove himself, which will abide with me at my ships while I have breath in my body, and my limbs are strong.Book 9 (86% in)
- ...of their ships; when, however, they saw that the Trojans were attacking the wall, while the Danaans were crying out for help and being routed, they rushed outside and fought in front of the gates like two wild boars upon the mountains that abide the attack of men and dogs, and charging on either side break down the wood all round them tearing it up by the roots, and one can hear the clattering of their tusks, till some one hits them and makes an end of them—even so did the gleaming...Book 12 (30% in)
- ...words he moved the heart of Aeneas, and he went in pursuit of Idomeneus, big with great deeds of valour; but Idomeneus was not to be thus daunted as though he were a mere child; he held his ground as a wild boar at bay upon the mountains, who abides the coming of a great crowd of men in some lonely place—the bristles stand upright on his back, his eyes flash fire, and he whets his tusks in his eagerness to defend himself against hounds and men—even so did famed Idomeneus hold his...Book 13 (56% in)
- I greatly fear that the Achaeans will pay us their debt of yesterday in full, for there is one abiding at their ships who is never weary of battle, and who will not hold aloof much longer.Book 13 (89% in)
- ...Hector answered, "Ajax, braggart and false of tongue, would that I were as sure of being son for evermore to aegis-bearing Jove, with Queen Juno for my mother, and of being held in like honour with Minerva and Apollo, as I am that this day is big with the destruction of the Achaeans; and you shall fall among them if you dare abide my spear; it shall rend your fair body and bid you glut our hounds and birds of prey with your fat and your flesh, as you fall by the ships of the Achaeans."Book 13 (99% in)
- And yet—so be it, for it is over; I will force my soul into subjection as I needs must; I will go; I will pursue Hector who has slain him whom I loved so dearly, and will then abide my doom when it may please Jove and the other gods to send it.Book 18 (19% in)
- In the beginning Dardanus was the son of Jove, and founded Dardania, for Ilius was not yet stablished on the plain for men to dwell in, and her people still abode on the spurs of many-fountained Ida.Book 20 (43% in)
There are no more uses of "abide" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler).
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