All 5 Uses
hinder
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
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- I would obey you, but the Achaeans, and more particularly the wicked suitors, are hindering me that I cannot do so.†
Book 2 *hindering = slowing down or causing problems for
- Tell me, therefore, for the gods know everything, which of the immortals it is that is hindering me in this way, and tell me also how I may sail the sea so as to reach my home.'†
Book 4
- I am losing all heart; tell me, then, for you gods know everything, which of the immortals it is that is hindering me, and tell me also how I may sail the sea so as to reach my home?'†
Book 4
- A third Achaean leader is still at sea, alive, but hindered from returning.†
Book 4hindered = slowed down or caused problems for
- You must take what you can get and be thankful, for servants live in fear when they have young lords for their masters; and this is my misfortune now, for heaven has hindered the return of him who would have been always good to me and given me something of my own—a house, a piece of land, a good looking wife, and all else that a liberal master allows a servant who has worked hard for him, and whose labour the gods have prospered as they have mine in the situation which I hold.†
Book 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(hinder as in: hindered by) slow down or cause problems for
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)