Both Uses of
quell
in
The Odyssey, by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
- And she seized her doughty spear, shod with sharp bronze, weighty and huge and strong, wherewith she quells the ranks of heroes with whomsoever she is wroth, the daughter of the mighty sire.†
Book 1quells = stops or suppresses
- For a god is hard for mortal man to quell.†
Book 4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(quell) suppress or stop completely
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
While quell still means to suppress or stop, in Shakespeare's time, it had a more violent connotation--often meaning to murder or to eliminate someone or something.