All 42 Uses
lament
in
The Odyssey, by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
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- He is gone, lost to sight and hearsay, but for me hath he left anguish and lamentation; nor henceforth is it for him alone that I mourn and weep, since the gods have wrought for me other sore distress.†
Book 1lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- So spake he, and the good nurse Eurycleia wailed aloud, and making lament spake to him winged words: 'Ah, wherefore, dear child, hath such a thought arisen in thine heart?†
Book 2lament = express grief or regret
- Howbeit, though I bewail them all and sorrow oftentimes as I sit in our halls,—awhile indeed I satisfy my soul with lamentation, and then again I cease; for soon hath man enough of chill lamentation—yet for them all I make no such dole, despite my grief, as for one only, who causes me to loathe both sleep and meat, when I think upon him.†
Book 4lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- Howbeit, though I bewail them all and sorrow oftentimes as I sit in our halls,—awhile indeed I satisfy my soul with lamentation, and then again I cease; for soon hath man enough of chill lamentation—yet for them all I make no such dole, despite my grief, as for one only, who causes me to loathe both sleep and meat, when I think upon him.†
Book 4
- Yea methinks they lament him, even that old Laertes and the constant Penelope and Telemachus, whom he left a child new-born in his house.'†
Book 4lament = express grief or regret
- So spake he, and in the heart of Telemachus he stirred a yearning to lament his father; and at his father's name he let a tear fall from his eyelids to the ground, and held up his purple mantle with both his hands before his eyes.†
Book 4
- So spake he, and in the hearts of all he stirred the desire of lamentation.†
Book 4lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- And Penelope spake among them pouring forth her lamentation: 'Hear me, my friends, for the Olympian sire hath given me pain exceedingly beyond all women who were born and bred in my day.†
Book 4
- So spake she, and lulled her queen's lamentation, and made her eyes to cease from weeping.†
Book 4
- And she sent it to the house of divine Odysseus to bid Penelope, amid her sorrow and lamenting, to cease from her weeping and tearful lamentation.†
Book 4 *lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- And she sent it to the house of divine Odysseus to bid Penelope, amid her sorrow and lamenting, to cease from her weeping and tearful lamentation.†
Book 4lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- From the time that we began to sup, and that the divine minstrel was moved to sing, ever since hath yonder stranger never ceased from woeful lamentation: sore grief, methinks, hath encompassed his heart.†
Book 8
- So he went on his way, and with him two and twenty of my fellowship all weeping; and we were left behind making lament.†
Book 10lament = express grief or regret
- Not a word could he utter, for all his desire, so deeply smitten was he to the heart with grief, and his eyes were filled with tears and his soul was fain of lamentation.†
Book 10lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- And they all knew me again and each one took my hands, and wistful was the lament that sank into their souls, and the roof around rang wondrously.†
Book 10lament = express grief or regret
- So I went on my way to the swift ship and the sea-banks, and there I found my dear company on the swift ship lamenting piteously, shedding big tears.†
Book 10lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- 'Then making lament they spake to me winged words: "O fosterling of Zeus, we were none otherwise glad at thy returning, than if we had come to Ithaca, our own country.†
Book 10lament = express grief or regret
- 'Even so I spake, but their heart within them was broken, and they sat them down even where they were, and made lament and tore their hair.†
Book 10
- And uttering my voice I spake to her winged words: '"Mother mine, wherefore dost thou not abide me who am eager to clasp thee, that even in Hades we twain may cast our arms each about the other, and have our fill of chill lament?†
Book 11
- And the spirit of the son of Aeacus, fleet of foot, knew me again, and making lament spake to me winged words: '"Son of Laertes, of the seed of Zeus, Odysseus of many devices, man overbold, what new deed and hardier than this wilt thou devise in thy heart?†
Book 11
- And anon he knew me when his eyes beheld me, and making lament he spake unto me winged words: '"Son of Laertes, of the seed of Zeus, Odysseus of many devices: ah!†
Book 11
- Next we began to sail up the narrow strait lamenting.†
Book 12lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- So he started up, and stood and looked upon his native land, and then he made moan withal, and smote on both his thighs with the down-stroke of his hands, and making lament, he spake, saying: 'Oh, woe is me, unto what mortals' land am I now come?†
Book 13lament = express grief or regret
- Therewith he set to number the fair tripods and the cauldrons and the gold and the goodly woven raiment; and of all these he lacked not aught, but he bewailed him for his own country, as he walked downcast by the shore of the sounding sea, and made sore lament.†
Book 13
- But now I make a comfortless lament for the boy begotten of Odysseus, even for Telemachus.†
Book 14
- But now, from the day that thou wentest in thy ship to Pylos, never to this hour, they say, hath he so much as eaten and drunken, nor looked to the labours of the field, but with groaning and lamentation he sits sorrowing, and the flesh wastes away about his bones.'†
Book 16lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- With this word then he sat down again; but Telemachus, flinging himself upon his noble father's neck, mourned and shed tears, and in both their hearts arose the desire of lamentation.†
Book 16
- So soon as early Dawn shone forth, the rosy-fingered, then Telemachus, the dear son of divine Odysseus, bound beneath his feet his goodly sandals, and took up his mighty spear that fitted his grasp, to make for the city; and he spake to his swineherd, saying: 'Verily, father, I am bound for the city, that my mother may see me, for methinks that she will not cease from grievous wailing and tearful lament, until she beholds my very face.†
Book 17lament = express grief or regret
- Now Odysseus had compassion of heart upon his wife in her lamenting, but his eyes kept steadfast between his eyelids as it were horn or iron, and craftily he hid his tears.†
Book 19lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- But she, when she had taken her fill of tearful lamentation, answered him in turn and spake, saying: 'Friend as thou art, even now I think to make trial of thee, and learn whether in very truth thou didst entertain my lord there in thy halls with his godlike company, as thou sayest.†
Book 19lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- So when she had taken her fill of tearful lament, then she answered him, and spake saying: 'Now verily, stranger, thou that even before wert held in pity, shalt be dear and honourable in my halls, for it was I who gave him these garments, as judging from thy words, and folded them myself, and brought them from the chamber, and added besides the shining brooch to be his jewel.†
Book 19lament = express grief or regret
- Nay, cease from thy lamenting, and lay up my word in thy heart; for I will tell thee without fail, and will hide nought, how but lately I heard tell of the return of Odysseus, that he is nigh at hand, and yet alive in the fat land of the men of Thesprotia, and is bringing with him many choice treasures, as he begs through the land.†
Book 19lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- So she spake, and the old woman covered her face with her hands and shed hot tears, and spake a word of lamentation, saying: 'Ah, woe is me, child, for thy sake, all helpless that I am!†
Book 19lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- But to me has the god given sorrow, yea sorrow measureless, for all the day I have my fill of wailing and lamenting, as I look to mine own housewiferies and to the tasks of the maidens in the house.†
Book 19lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- Thereon I wept and wailed, in a dream though it was, and around me were gathered the fair-tressed Achaean women as I made piteous lament, for that the eagle had slain my geese.†
Book 19lament = express grief or regret
- And now they were laughing with alien lips, and blood-bedabbled was the flesh they ate, and their eyes were filled with tears and their soul was fain of lamentation.†
Book 20lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- Now when she had her fill of tearful lament, she set forth to go to the hall to the company of the proud wooers, with the back-bent bow in her hands, and the quiver for the arrows, and many shafts were therein winged for death.†
Book 21lament = express grief or regret
- And now would the sunlight have gone down upon their sorrowing, had not Odysseus himself stayed them saying: 'Cease ye from weeping and lamentation, lest some one come forth from the hall and see us, and tell it likewise in the house.†
Book 21lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- Even so he spake, and the women came all in a crowd together, making a terrible lament and shedding big tears.†
Book 22lament = express grief or regret
- Thus she spake, and in his heart she stirred yet a greater longing to lament, and he wept as he embraced his beloved wife and true.†
Book 23
- Then round thee stood the daughters of the ancient one of the sea, holding a pitiful lament, and they clad thee about in raiment incorruptible.†
Book 24
- But stay thy weeping and tearful lamentation, for I will tell thee all clearly, though great need there is of haste.†
Book 24lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
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.