Both Uses of
portent
in
The Odyssey by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
- The reader will observe a series of portents, prophecies, and omens, which grow more numerous and admonishing as their doom draws nearer to the wooers.†
Book Intr. *
- She now stayed her quern and spake a word, a sign to her lord: 'Father Zeus, who rulest over gods and men, loudly hast thou thundered from the starry sky, yet nowhere is there a cloud to be seen: this surely is a portent thou art showing to some mortal.†
Book 20
Definition:
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(portent) a sign of something about to happen