All 37 Uses of
moreover
in
The Odyssey by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
- Moreover it is hard for me to make heavy restitution to Icarius, as needs I must, if of mine own will I send my mother away.†
Book 2 *
- So should we have yet more ado, for then must we divide among us all his substance, and moreover give the house to his mother to possess it, and to him whosoever should wed her.'†
Book 2
- Moreover a young man may well be abashed to question an elder.'†
Book 3
- Grant moreover that Telemachus and I may return, when we have accomplished that for which we came hither with our swift black ship.'†
Book 3
- Moreover there was with her a minstrel, whom the son of Atreus straitly charged as he went to Troy to have a care of his wife.†
Book 3
- Right easily known is that man's seed, for whom Cronion weaves the skein of luck at bridal and at birth: even as now hath he granted prosperity to Nestor for ever for all his days, that he himself should grow into a smooth old age in his halls, and his sons moreover should be wise and the best of spearsmen.†
Book 4
- Then will I send thee with all honour on thy way, and give thee splendid gifts, three horses and a polished car; and moreover I will give thee a goodly chalice, that thou mayest pour forth before the deathless gods, and be mindful of me all the days of thy life.'†
Book 4
- And thereat he wrought, and set up the deckings, fitting them to the close-set uprights, and finished them off with long gunwales, and there he set a mast, and a yard-arm fitted thereto, and moreover he made him a rudder to guide the craft.†
Book 5
- Moreover, the goddess placed on board the ship two skins, one of dark wine, and another, a great one, of water, and corn too in a wallet, and she set therein a store of dainties to his heart's desire, and sent forth a warm and gentle wind to blow.†
Book 5
- Moreover, bid hither the divine minstrel, Demodocus, for the god hath given minstrelsy to him as to none other, to make men glad in what way soever his spirit stirs him to sing.'†
Book 8
- Moreover it is possessed neither by flocks nor by ploughed lands, but the soil lies unsown evermore and untilled, desolate of men, and feeds the bleating goats.†
Book 9
- Moreover he is my guest, though every one of you hath his share in this honour.†
Book 11
- 'Moreover I beheld Tantalus in grievous torment, standing in a mere and the water came nigh unto his chin.†
Book 11
- And therein are mixing bowls and jars of stone, and there moreover do bees hive.†
Book 13
- But the shaker of the earth forgat not the threats, wherewith at the first he had threatened god like Odysseus, and he inquired into the counsel of Zeus, saying: 'Father Zeus, I for one shall no longer be of worship among the deathless gods, when mortal men hold me in no regard, even Phaeacians, who moreover are of mine own lineage.†
Book 13
- Moreover, he sware, in mine own presence, as he poured the drink offering in his house, that the ship was drawn down to the sea and his company were ready, who were to convey him to his own dear country.†
Book 14
- Moreover we are equals in age, and this journey shall turn to our greater love.†
Book 15
- Moreover I would go to the house of divine Odysseus and bear tidings to the wise Penelope, and consort with the wanton wooers, if haply they might grant me a meal out of the boundless store that they have by them.†
Book 15
- But from my lady I may hear naught pleasant, neither word nor deed, for evil hath fallen on her house, a plague of froward men; yet thralls have a great desire to speak before their mistress and find out all eat and drink, and moreover to carry off somewhat with them to the field, such things as ever comfort the heart of a thrall.'†
Book 15
- Moreover Cronion hath put into my heart this other and greater care, that perchance, when ye are heated with wine, ye set a quarrel between you and wound one the other and thereby shame the feast and the wooing; for iron of itself draws a man thereto.†
Book 16
- Yea, and we would moreover make trial of certain of the men among the thralls, and learn who{*}of them chances to honour us and to fear us heartily, and who regards us not at all and holds even thee in no esteem, so noble a man as thou art.'†
Book 16
- For woefully poor are these garments of mine, and I fear lest the hoar frost of the dawn overcome me; moreover ye say the city is far away.'†
Book 17
- Moreover thou shalt beg thy bread through the land and shalt fill thy belly, and whosoever will, shall give to thee.'†
Book 17
- Moreover some god hath put into my heart this other and greater care, that perchance when ye are heated with wine, ye set a quarrel between you and wound one the other, and thereby shame the feast and the wooing; for iron of itself draws a man thereto.'†
Book 19
- Moreover it beseems me not to sit weeping and wailing in another's house, for it is little good to mourn always without ceasing, lest perchance one of the maidens, or even thyself, be angry with me and say that I swim in tears, as one that is heavy with wine.'†
Book 19
- Moreover, I marked the shining doublet about his body, like the gleam over the skin of a dried onion, so smooth it was, and glistering as the sun; truly many women looked thereon and wondered.†
Book 19
- Moreover, a henchman bare him company, somewhat older than he, and I will tell thee of him too, what manner of man he was.†
Book 19
- Moreover he sware, in mine own presence, as he poured the drink-offering in his house, that the ship was drawn down to the sea and his company were ready, who were to convey him to his own dear country.†
Book 19
- 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
- Moreover a woman, a grinder at the mill, uttered a voice of omen from within the house hard by, where stood the mills of the shepherd of the people.†
Book 20
- Moreover, against the hour when he should bethink him of rest and sleep, she bade the maidens strew for him a bed.†
Book 20
- Moreover a third man came up, Philoetius, a master of men, leading a barren heifer for the wooers and fatted goats.†
Book 20
- Moreover, Iphitus came thither in his search for twelve brood mares, which he had lost, with sturdy mules at the teat.†
Book 21
- Moreover Athene shed great beauty from his head downwards, and made him greater and more mighty to behold, and from his head caused deep curling locks to flow, like the hyacinth flower.†
Book 23
- Tell me moreover truly, that I may surely know, if it be indeed to Ithaca that I am now come, as one yonder told me who met with me but now on the way hither.†
Book 24
- Moreover, tell me this truly, that I may surely know, who art thou and whence of the sons of men?†
Book 24
- Moreover tell me this truly, that I may be assured, whether wise Penelope yet knows well that thou hast come back hither, or whether we shall dispatch a messenger.'†
Book 24
Definition:
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(moreover) in addition to what has just been said