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able to withstand attack
- Fallen is the wall on which we relied as an impregnable bulwark both for us and our fleet.Book 14 (11% in)
- And King Agamemnon answered, "Nestor, if the Trojans are indeed fighting at the rear of our ships, and neither the wall nor the trench has served us—over which the Danaans toiled so hard, and which they deemed would be an impregnable bulwark both for us and our fleet—I see it must be the will of Jove that the Achaeans should perish ingloriously here, far from Argos.Book 14 (13% in)
- I built the Trojans the wall about their city, so wide and fair that it might be impregnable, while you, Phoebus, herded cattle for him in the dales of many valleyed Ida.Book 21 (73% in)
There are no more uses of "impregnable" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler).
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