All 26 Uses
lament
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
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- The serpent ate the poor cheeping things, while the old bird flew about lamenting her little ones; but the serpent threw his coils about her and caught her by the wing as she was screaming.†
Book 2 *lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- When she reached her home she found her maidens within, and bade them all join in her lament; so they mourned Hector in his own house though he was yet alive, for they deemed that they should never see him return safe from battle, and from the furious hands of the Achaeans.†
Book 6lament = express grief or regret
- I say further—and lay my saying to your heart—vex me no more with this weeping and lamentation, all in the cause of the son of Atreus.†
Book 9lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- The crystal cave was filled with their multitude and they all beat their breasts while Thetis led them in their lament.†
Book 18lament = express grief or regret
- They took their supper throughout the host, and meanwhile through the whole night the Achaeans mourned Patroclus, and the son of Peleus led them in their lament.†
Book 18
- She wept as she spoke, and the women joined in her lament-making as though their tears were for Patroclus, but in truth each was weeping for her own sorrows.†
Book 19
- Though Priam son of Dardanus should bid them offer me your weight in gold, even so your mother shall never lay you out and make lament over the son she bore, but dogs and vultures shall eat you utterly up.†
Book 22
- When he had thus said the shrouds of death enfolded him, whereon his soul went out of him and flew down to the house of Hades, lamenting its sad fate that it should enjoy youth and strength no longer.†
Book 22lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- Thus did he speak with many tears, and all the people of the city joined in his lament.†
Book 22lament = express grief or regret
- Her husband's sisters and the wives of his brothers crowded round her and supported her, for she was fain to die in her distraction; when she again presently breathed and came to herself, she sobbed and made lament among the Trojans saying, "Woe is me, O Hector; woe, indeed, that to share a common lot we were born, you at Troy in the house of Priam, and I at Thebes under the wooded mountain of Placus in the house of Eetion who brought me up when I was a child—ill-starred sire of an ill-starred daughter—would that he had never begotten me.†
Book 22
- In such wise did she cry aloud amid her tears, and the women joined in her lament.†
Book 22
- When we have had full comfort of lamentation we will unyoke our horses and take supper all of us here.†
Book 23lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- On this they all joined in a cry of wailing and Achilles led them in their lament.†
Book 23lament = express grief or regret
- Achilles sprang to his feet, smote his two hands, and made lamentation saying, "Of a truth even in the house of Hades there are ghosts and phantoms that have no life in them; all night long the sad spirit of Patroclus has hovered over head making piteous moan, telling me what I am to do for him, and looking wondrously like himself."†
Book 23lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- As he spoke he placed the lock in the hands of his dear comrade, and all who stood by were filled with yearning and lamentation.†
Book 23
- "I cannot stay," she said, "I must go back to the streams of Oceanus and the land of the Ethiopians who are offering hecatombs to the immortals, and I would have my share; but Achilles prays that Boreas and shrill Zephyrus will come to him, and he vows them goodly offerings; he would have you blow upon the pyre of Patroclus for whom all the Achaeans are lamenting."†
Book 23lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- As a father mourns when he is burning the bones of his bridegroom son whose death has wrung the hearts of his parents, even so did Achilles mourn while burning the body of his comrade, pacing round the bier with piteous groaning and lamentation.†
Book 23lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- She went to Priam's house, and found weeping and lamentation therein.†
Book 24
- Before him went the mules drawing the four-wheeled waggon, and driven by wise Idaeus; behind these were the horses, which the old man lashed with his whip and drove swiftly through the city, while his friends followed after, wailing and lamenting for him as though he were on his road to death.†
Book 24lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- The two wept bitterly—Priam, as he lay at Achilles' feet, weeping for Hector, and Achilles now for his father and now for Patroclus, till the house was filled with their lamentation.†
Book 24lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- Priam and Idaeus then drove on toward the city lamenting and making moan, and the mules drew the body of Hector.†
Book 24lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- They would have stayed before the gates, weeping and lamenting the livelong day to the going down of the sun, had not Priam spoken to them from the chariot and said, "Make way for the mules to pass you.†
Book 24
- When they had borne the body within the house they laid it upon a bed and seated minstrels round it to lead the dirge, whereon the women joined in the sad music of their lament.†
Book 24lament = express grief or regret
- Bitterly did she weep the while, and the women joined in her lament.†
Book 24
- Thus did she too speak through her tears with bitter moan, and then Helen for a third time took up the strain of lamentation.†
Book 24lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- She wept as she spoke and the vast crowd that was gathered round her joined in her lament.†
Book 24lament = express grief or regret
Definitions:
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(1)
(lament) to express grief or regret
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Although lament typically refers to a feeling or simple vocal expression, it can refer to a vocal expression as complex as a sad song or poem. It can even refer to sad, but non-vocal music -- as when Tennessee Williams references background music in A Streetcar Named Desire.