All 50 Uses of
divine
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- She holds a conference with Telemachus, in the shape of Mantes, king of Taphians; in which she advises him to take a journey in quest of his father Ulysses, to Pylos and Sparta, where Nestor and Menelaus yet reigned; then, after having visibly displayed her divinity, disappears.†
Book 1 (definition 1)
- From high Olympus prone her flight she bends, And in the realms of Ithaca descends, Her lineaments divine, the grave disguise Of Mentes' form conceal'd from human eyes (Mentes, the monarch of the Taphian land); A glittering spear waved awful in her hand.†
Book 1 (definition 1)
- With rival art, and ardour in their mien, At chess they vie, to captivate the queen; Divining of their loves.†
Book 1 (definition 2)
- Phemius, whose voice divine could sweetest sing
Book 1 (definition 1) *divine = wonderful
- To whom, with aspect mild, the guest divine: "Oh true descendant of a sceptred line!†
Book 1 (definition 1)
- Or from their deed I rightlier may divine, Unseemly flown with insolence and wine?†
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- But of his wish'd return the care resign, Be future vengeance to the powers divine.†
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- Oft, Jove's ethereal rays (resistless fire) The chanters soul and raptured song inspire Instinct divine? nor blame severe his choice, Warbling the Grecian woes with heart and voice; For novel lays attract our ravish'd ears; But old, the mind with inattention hears: Patient permit the sadly pleasing strain; Familiar now with grief, your tears refrain, And in the public woe forget your own; You weep not for a perish'd lord alone.†
Book 1 (definition 1)
- "Oh son of Polybus!" the prince replies, "No more my sire will glad these longing eyes; The queen's fond hope inventive rumour cheers, Or vain diviners' dreams divert her fears.†
Book 1 (definition 2)
- Bright in his hand a ponderous javelin shined; Two dogs, a faithful guard, attend behind; Pallas with grace divine his form improves, And gazing crowds admire him as he moves, His father's throne he fill'd; while distant stood The hoary peers, and aged wisdom bow'd.†
Book 2 (definition 1)
- Though with a grace divine her soul is blest, And all Minerva breathes within her breast, In wondrous arts than woman more renown'd, And more than woman with deep wisdom crown'd; Though Tyro nor Mycene match her name, Not great Alemena (the proud boasts of fame); Yet thus by heaven adorn'd, by heaven's decree She shines with fatal excellence, to thee: With thee, the bowl we drain, indulge the feast, Till righteous heaven reclaim her stubborn breast.†
Book 2 (definition 1)
- Indulgent to his prayer, the goddess took Sage Mentor's form, and thus like Mentor spoke: "O prince, in early youth divinely wise, Born, the Ulysses of thy age to rise If to the son the father's worth descends, O'er the wide wave success thy ways attends To tread the walks of death he stood prepared; And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.†
Book 2 (definition 1)
- While to the rival train the prince returns, The martial goddess with impatience burns; Like thee, Telemachus, in voice and size, With speed divine from street to street she flies, She bids the mariners prepared to stand, When night descends, embodied on the strand.†
Book 2 (definition 1)
- And now they ship their oars, and crown with wine The holy goblet to the powers divine: Imploring all the gods that reign above, But chief the blue-eyed progeny of Jove.†
Book 2 (definition 1)
- …o'er; Then first approaching to the elder guest, The latent goddess in these words address'd: "Whoe'er thou art, from fortune brings to keep These rites of Neptune, monarch of the deep, Thee first it fits, O stranger! to prepare The due libation and the solemn prayer; Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine; Though much thy younger, and his years like mine, He too, I deem, implores the power divine; For all mankind alike require their grace, All born to want; a miserable race!"†
Book 3 (definition 1)
- Thus she: and having paid the rite divine, Gave to Ulysses' son the rosy wine.†
Book 3 (definition 1)
- We sought direction of the power divine: The god propitious gave the guiding sign; Through the mid seas he bid our navy steer, And in Euboea shun the woes we fear.†
Book 3 (definition 1)
- Or leagued against thee, do thy people join, Moved by some oracle, or voice divine?†
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- But if Athena, war's triumphant maid, The happy son will as the father aid, (Whose fame and safety was her constant care In every danger and in every war: Never on man did heavenly favour shine With rays so strong, distinguish'd and divine, As those with which Minerva mark'd thy sire) So might she love thee, so thy soul inspire!†
Book 3 (definition 1)
- (Thus interposed the martial maid divine) Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will, extends his boundless grace; Nor lost in time nor circumscribed by place.†
Book 3 (definition 1)
- Now immolate the tongues, and mix the wine, Sacred to Neptune and the powers divine, The lamp of day is quench'd beneath the deep, And soft approach the balmy hours of sleep; Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast, Timeless, indecent, but retire to rest."†
Book 3 (definition 1)
- Vision divine! the throng'd spectators gaze In holy wonder fix'd, and still amaze.†
Book 3 (definition 1)
- The thighs now sacrificed, and entrails dress'd, The assistants part, transfix, and broil the rest While these officious tend the rites divine, The last fair branch of the Nestorean line, Sweet Polycaste, took the pleasing toil To bathe the prince, and pour the fragrant oil.†
Book 3 (definition 1)
- A silver canister, divinely wrought, In her soft hands the beauteous Phylo brought; To Sparta's queen of old the radiant vase Alcandra gave, a pledge of royal grace; For Polybus her lord (whose sovereign sway The wealthy tribes of Pharian Thebes obey), When to that court Atrides came, caress'd With vast munificence the imperial guest: Two lavers from the richest ore refined, With silver tripods, the kind host assign'd; And bounteous from the royal treasure told Ten equal talents of…†
Book 4 (definition 1)
- …purple dress'd, Unbarr'd the portal of the roseate east, The monarch rose; magnificent to view, The imperial mantle o'er his vest he threw; The glittering zone athwart his shoulders cast, A starry falchion low-depending graced; Clasp'd on his feet the embroidered sandals shine; And forth he moves, majestic and divine, Instant to young Telemachus he press'd; And thus benevolent his speech addressed: "Say, royal youth, sincere of soul report Whit cause hath led you to the Spartan court?†
Book 4 (definition 1)
- When lo! a bright cerulean form appears, Proteus her sire divine.†
Book 4 (definition 1)
- "I ceased, when affable the goddess cried: 'Observe, and in the truths I speak confide; The oracular seer frequents the Pharian coast, From whose high bed my birth divine I boast; Proteus, a name tremendous o'er the main, The delegate of Neptune's watery reign.†
Book 4 (definition 1)
- They form a deed more odious and accursed; More dreadful than your boding soul divines; But pitying Jove avert the dire designs!†
Book 4 (definition 2)
- Send not to good Laertes, nor engage In toils of state the miseries of age: Tis impious to surmise the powers divine To ruin doom the Jove-descended line; Long shall the race of just Arcesius reign, And isles remote enlarge his old domain.†
Book 4 (definition 1)
- …attention hears, Her eyes restrain the silver-streaming tears: She bathes, and robed, the sacred dome ascends; Her pious speed a female train attends: The salted cakes in canisters are laid, And thus the queen invokes Minerva's aid; "Daughter divine of Jove, whose arm can wield The avenging bolt, and shake the dreadful shield If e'er Ulysses to thy fane preferr'd The best and choicest of his flock and herd; Hear, goddess, hear, by those oblations won; And for the pious sire preserve…†
Book 4 (definition 1)
- The bold Phaecians there, whose haughty line Is mixed with gods, half human, half divine, The chief shall honour as some heavenly guest, And swift transport him to his place of rest, His vessels loaded with a plenteous store Of brass, of vestures, and resplendent ore (A richer prize than if his joyful isle Received him charged with Ilion's noble spoil), His friends, his country, he shall see, though late: Such is our sovereign will, and such is fate."†
Book 5 (definition 1)
- Now graceful seated on her shining throne, To Hermes thus the nymph divine begun: "God of the golden wand! on what behest Arrivest thou here, an unexpected guest?†
Book 5 (definition 1)
- Thus having spoke, the nymph the table spread (Ambrosial cates, with nectar rosy-red); Hermes the hospitable rite partook, Divine refection! then, recruited, spoke: "What moves this journey from my native sky, A goddess asks, nor can a god deny.†
Book 5 (definition 1)
- Thus having said, he cut the cleaving sky, And in a moment vanished from her eye, The nymph, obedient to divine command, To seek Ulysses, paced along the sand, Him pensive on the lonely beach she found, With streaming eyes in briny torrents drown'd, And inly pining for his native shore; For now the soft enchantress pleased no more; For now, reluctant, and constrained by charms, Absent he lay in her desiring arms, In slumber wore the heavy night away, On rocks and shores consumed the…†
Book 5 (definition 1)
- For him the nymph a rich repast ordains, Such as the mortal life of man sustains; Before herself were placed the the cates divine, Ambrosial banquet and celestial wine.†
Book 5 (definition 1)
- Four days were pass'd, and now the work complete, Shone the fifth morn, when from her sacred seat The nymph dismiss'd him (odorous garments given), And bathed in fragrant oils that breathed of heaven: Then fill'd two goatskins with her hands divine, With water one, and one with sable wine: Of every kind, provisions heaved aboard; And the full decks with copious viands stored.†
Book 5 (definition 1)
- There, as the night in silence roll'd away, A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay: Through the thick gloom the shining portals blaze; Two nymphs the portals guard, each nymph a Grace, Light as the viewless air the warrior maid Glides through the valves, and hovers round her head; A favourite virgin's blooming form she took, From Dymas sprung, and thus the vision spoke: "Oh Indolent! to waste thy hours away!†
Book 6 (definition 1)
- The train prepare a cruse of curious mould, A cruse of fragrance, form'd of burnish'd gold; Odour divine! whose soft refreshing streams Sleek the smooth skin, and scent the snowy limbs.†
Book 6 (definition 1)
- If in that bright disguise Thou visit earth, a daughter of the skies, Hail, Dian, hail! the huntress of the groves So shines majestic, and so stately moves, So breathes an air divine!†
Book 6 (definition 1)
- The warrior-goddess gives his frame to shine With majesty enlarged, and air divine: Back from his brows a length of hair unfurls, His hyacinthine locks descend in wavy curls.†
Book 6 (definition 1)
- As by some artist, to whom Vulcan gives His skill divine, a breathing statue lives; By Pallas taught, he frames the wondrous mould, And o'er the silver pours the fusile gold So Pallas his heroic frame improves With heavenly bloom, and like a god he moves.†
Book 6 (definition 1)
- The wondering nymph his glorious port survey'd, And to her damsels, with amazement, said: "Not without care divine the stranger treads This land of joy; his steps some godhead leads: Would Jove destroy him, sure he had been driven Far from this realm, the favourite isle of heaven.†
Book 6 (definition 1)
- Two rows of stately dogs, on either hand, In sculptured gold and labour'd silver stood These Vulcan form'd with art divine, to wait Immortal guardians at Alcinous' gate; Alive each animated frame appears, And still to live beyond the power of years, Fair thrones within from space to space were raised, Where various carpets with embroidery blessed, The work of matrons: these the princes press'd.†
Book 7 (definition 1)
- But if, descended from the Olympian bower, Gracious approach us some immortal power; If in that form thou comest a guest divine: Some high event the conscious gods design.†
Book 7 (definition 1)
- Each drinks a full oblivion of his cares, And to the gifts of balmy sleep repairs, Ulysses in the regal walls alone Remain'd: beside him, on a splendid throne, Divine Arete and Alcinous shone.†
Book 7 (definition 1)
- Meanwhile Minerva, in her guardian care, Shoots from the starry vault through fields of air; In form, a herald of the king, she flies From peer to peer, and thus incessant cries; "Nobles and chiefs who rule Phaeacia's states, The king in council your attendance waits; A prince of grace divine your aid implores, O'er unknown seas arrived from unknown shores."†
Book 8 (definition 1)
- Pallas with grace divine his form improves, More high he treads, and more enlarged he moves: She sheds celestial bloom, regard to draw; And gives a dignity of mien, to awe; With strength, the future prize of fame to play, And gather all the honours of the day.†
Book 8 (definition 1)
- A wondrous ball is brought (The work of Polypus, divinely wrought); This youth with strength enormous bids it fly, And bending backward whirls it to the sky; His brother, springing with an active bound, At distance intercepts it from the ground.†
Book 8 (definition 1)
- How goodly seems it ever to employ Man's social days in union and in joy; The plenteous hoard high-heap'd with cates divine, And o'er the foaming bowl the laughing wine!†
Book 9 (definition 1)
- They went, and found a hospitable race: Not prone to ill, nor strange to foreign guest, They eat, they drink, and nature gives the feast The trees around them all their food produce: Lotus the name: divine, nectareous juice!†
Book 9 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
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(2) (divine as in: divined from tea leaves) to predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)