Both Uses of
assuage
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- Juno, again, suffered when the mighty son of Amphitryon wounded her on the right breast with a three-barbed arrow, and nothing could assuage her pain.†
Book 5 *assuage = soothe
- Automedon, peer of fleet Mars, then stripped him of his armour and vaunted over him saying, "I have done little to assuage my sorrow for the son of Menoetius, for the man I have killed is not so good as he was."†
Book 17
Definition:
to soothe (make something less unpleasant or frightening)