All 5 Uses of
fraught
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- Then he opened the lid of his quiver and took out a winged arrow that had not yet been shot, fraught with the pangs of death.†
Book 4 *
- Mars and dread Enyo led them on, she fraught with ruthless turmoil of battle, while Mars wielded a monstrous spear, and went about, now in front of Hector and now behind him.†
Book 5
- He took the balance by the middle, and when he lifted it up the day of the Achaeans sank; the death-fraught scale of the Achaeans settled down upon the ground, while that of the Trojans rose heavenwards.†
Book 8
- He also drew his father's spear out of the spear-stand, a spear so great and heavy and strong that none of the Achaeans save only Achilles had strength to wield it; this was the spear of Pelian ash from the topmost ridges of Mt. Pelion, which Chiron had once given to Peleus, fraught with the death of heroes.†
Book 19
- The thick tresses of gold with which Vulcan had crested the helmet floated round it, and as the evening star that shines brighter than all others through the stillness of night, even such was the gleam of the spear which Achilles poised in his right hand, fraught with the death of noble Hector.†
Book 22
Definition:
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(fraught) full of negative things; or marked by or causing distress