All 3 Uses of
portentous
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- But all the time Jove boded them ill and roared with his portentous thunder.†
Book 7 *
- Thus did he pray, and father Jove pitying his tears vouchsafed him that his people should live, not die; forthwith he sent them an eagle, most unfailingly portentous of all birds, with a young fawn in its talons; the eagle dropped the fawn by the altar on which the Achaeans sacrificed to Jove the lord of omens; when, therefore, the people saw that the bird had come from Jove, they sprang more fiercely upon the Trojans and fought more boldly.†
Book 8
- The son of Saturn bowed his portentous brows, and Hector fitted the armour to his body, while terrible Mars entered into him, and filled his whole body with might and valour.†
Book 17
Definition:
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(portentous) very important; or indicating something important in the future
or:
acting overly important or serious