All 3 Uses of
fetter
in
The Odyssey, by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
- Now when Hephaestus heard the bitter tidings, he went his way to the forge, devising evil in the deep of his heart, and set the great anvil on the stithy, and wrought fetters that none might snap or loosen, that the lovers might there unmoveably remain.†
Book 8fetters = restrains or hinders OR shackles for the ankles
- And none but the noble seer (*) took in hand to drive them; but a grievous fate from the gods fettered him, even hard bonds and the herdsmen of the wild.†
Book 11 *fettered = restrained or hindered
- who is this that fettered our swift ship on the deep as she drave homewards?†
Book 13
Definition:
to restrain or hinder
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles