All 4 Uses of
prodigious
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- Alcinous's son Laodamas was the best boxer, and he it was who presently said, when they had all been diverted with the games, "Let us ask the stranger whether he excels in any of these sports; he seems very powerfully built; his thighs, calves, hands, and neck are of prodigious strength, nor is he at all old, but he has suffered much lately, and there is nothing like the sea for making havoc with a man, no matter how strong he is."†
Book 8
- Then he picked up a rock much larger than the first, swung it aloft and hurled it with prodigious force.
Book 9 *prodigious = enormous
- And I saw Sisyphus at his endless task raising his prodigious stone with both his hands.†
Book 11
- She has twelve mis-shapen feet, and six necks of the most prodigious length; and at the end of each neck she has a frightful head with three rows of teeth in each, all set very close together, so that they would crunch any one to death in a moment, and she sits deep within her shady cell thrusting out her heads and peering all round the rock, fishing for dolphins or dogfish or any larger monster that she can catch, of the thousands with which Amphitrite teems.†
Book 12
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree