All 19 Uses
avenge
in
The Odyssey, by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
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- To avenge this act, Poseidon drove Odysseus wandering for ten long years, and only suffered him to land in Ithaca, 'alone, in evil case, to find troubles in his house.'†
Book Intr.avenge = take revenge for
- The ordained time has now arrived, when by the counsels of the Gods, Odysseus is to be brought home to free his house, to avenge himself on the wooers, and recover his kingdom.†
Book Intr.
- This day is occupied with the recognition of Odysseus by his aged father Laertes, and with the futile attempt of the kinsfolk of the wooers to avenge them on Odysseus.†
Book Intr.
- For the son of Atreus shall be avenged at the hand of Orestes, so soon as he shall come to man's estate and long for his own country.†
Book 1 *avenged = took revenge
- For I shall have evil at his hand, at the hand of her father, and some god will give me more besides, for my mother will call down the dire Avengers as she departs from the house, and I shall have blame of men; surely then I will never speak this word.†
Book 2
- And wise Telemachus answered him, and said: 'Nestor, son of Neleus, great glory of the Achaeans, verily and indeed he avenged himself, and the Achaeans shall noise his fame abroad, that even those may hear who are yet for to be.†
Book 3avenged = took revenge
- Nay, lord, have regard to the gods, for we are thy suppliants; and Zeus is the avenger of suppliants and sojourners, Zeus, the god of the stranger, who fareth in the company of reverend strangers.†
Book 9avenger = someone who takes revenge
- Then with a loud whoop, the Cyclops turned his fat flocks towards the hills; but I was left devising evil in the deep of my heart, if in any wise I might avenge me, and Athene grant me renown.†
Book 9avenge = take revenge for
- Yet I tell thee, on thy coming thou shalt avenge their violence.†
Book 11
- But she went down to the house of Hades, the mighty warder; yea, she tied a noose from the high beam aloft, being fast holden in sorrow; while for him she left pains behind full many, even all that the Avengers of a mother bring to pass.†
Book 11
- 'So spake she, but I answered, and said unto her: "Come I pray thee herein, goddess, tell me true, if there be any means whereby I might escape from the deadly Charybdis and avenge me on that other, when she would prey upon my company."†
Book 12avenge = take revenge for
- Howsoever he escaped his fate, and drave away the lowing kine from Phylace to Pylos, and avenged the foul deed upon godlike Neleus, and brought the maiden home to his own brother to wife.†
Book 15avenged = took revenge
- Ah, if indeed there be gods and Avengers of beggars, may the issues of death come upon Antinous before his wedding!'†
Book 17
- Oh, if Odysseus might come again to his own country; soon would he and his son avenge the violence of these men!'†
Book 17avenge = take revenge for
- Moreover this other and harder matter I ponder in my heart: even if I were to slay them by thy will and the will of Zeus, whither should I flee from the avengers?†
Book 20
- Then Odysseus of many counsels answered him saying: 'Oh, that the gods, Eumaeus, may avenge the scorn wherewith these men deal insolently, and devise infatuate deeds in another's house, and have no place for shame!'†
Book 20avenge = take revenge for
- I have slain the wooers in our halls and avenged their bitter scorn and evil deeds.'†
Book 24avenged = took revenge
- For a scorn this is even for the ears of men unborn to hear, if we avenge not ourselves on the slayers of our sons and of our brethren.†
Book 24avenge = take revenge for
- And Eupeithes led them in his witlessness, for he thought to avenge the slaying of his son, yet himself was never to return, but then and there to meet his doom.†
Book 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(avenge) take revenge for a perceived wrong
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Avengers is also used as a proper noun to refer to fictious superheroes or naval ship names. Avenger has also been used to describe classes of weaponry.