All 38 Uses
martial
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
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- (Replied the Thunderer to the martial maid;) Deem not unjustly by my doom oppress'd, Of human race the wisest and the best†
Book 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
- Then thus, in Mentor's reverend form array'd, Spoke to Telemachus the martial maid.†
Book 2
- To whom the martial goddess thus rejoin'd: "Search, for some thoughts, thy own suggesting mind; And others, dictated by heavenly power, Shall rise spontaneous in the needful hour.†
Book 3
- (Thus interposed the martial maid divine) Forgetful youth†
Book 3
- or where Was then the martial brother's pious care?†
Book 3
- For had the martial Menelaus found The ruffian breathing yet on Argive ground; Nor earth had bid his carcase from the skies, Nor Grecian virgins shriek'd his obsequies, But fowls obscene dismember'd his remains, And dogs had torn him on the naked plains.†
Book 3
- He ceased; a gush of grief began to rise: Fast streams a tide from beauteous Helen's eyes; Fast for the sire the filial sorrows flow; The weeping monarch swells the mighty woe; Thy cheeks, Pisistratus, the tears bedew, While pictured so thy mind appear'd in view, Thy martial brother; on the Phrygian plain Extended pale, by swarthy Memnon slain!†
Book 4
- Right well (replied the king) your speech displays The matchless merit of the chief you praise: Heroes in various climes myself have found, For martial deeds and depth of thought renown'd; But Ithacus, unrivall'd in his claim, May boast a title to the loudest fame: In battle calm he guides the rapid storm, Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.†
Book 4
- With power congenial join'd, propitious aid The chief adopted by the martial maid!†
Book 4
- But bathe, and, in imperial robes array'd, Pay due devotions to the martial maid, And rest affianced in her guardian aid.†
Book 4
- Courage resume (the shadowy form replied); In the protecting care of Heaven confide; On him attends the blue eyed martial maid: What earthly can implore a surer aid?†
Book 4
- While thus the weary wanderer sunk to rest, And peaceful slumbers calmed his anxious breast, The martial maid from heavens aerial height Swift to Phaeacia wing'd her rapid flight, In elder times the soft Phaeacian train In ease possess'd the wide Hyperian plain;†
Book 6
- of my martial band; And dash'd like dogs against the stony floor: The pavement swims with brains and mingled gore.†
Book 9
- appear'd along the dusky coasts, Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts: Fair, pensive youths, and soft enamour'd maids; And wither'd elders, pale and wrinkled shades; Ghastly with wounds the forms of warriors slain Stalk'd with majestic port, a martial train: These and a thousand more swarm'd o'er the ground, And all the dire assembly shriek'd around.†
Book 11
- But when, to try the fortune of the day, Host moved toward host in terrible array, Before the van, impatient for the fight, With martial port he strode, and stern delight: Heaps strew'd on heaps beneath his falchion groan'd, And monuments of dead deform'd the ground.†
Book 11
- When Ilion in the horse received her doom, And unseen armies ambush'd in its womb, Greece gave her latent warriors to my care, 'Twas mine on Troy to pour the imprison'd war: Then when the boldest bosom beat with fear, When the stern eyes of heroes dropp'd a tear, Fierce in his look his ardent valour glow'd, Flush'd in his cheek, or sallied in his blood; Indignant in the dark recess he stands, Pants for the battle, and the war demands: His voice breathed death, and with a martial air He grasp'd his sword, and shook his glittering spear.†
Book 11
- Down to these worlds I trod the dismal way, And dragg'd the three-mouth'd dog to upper day E'en hell I conquer'd, through the friendly aid Of Maia's offspring, and the martial maid.†
Book 11
- Will martial flames for ever fire thy mind, And never, never be to Heaven resign'd?†
Book 12
- Now, seated in the olive's sacred shade, Confer the hero and the martial maid.†
Book 13
- Me, Pallas gave to lead the martial storm, And the fair ranks of battle to deform; Me, Mars inspired to turn the foe to flight, And tempt the secret ambush of the night.†
Book 14
- While yet he spoke, impatient of delay, He braced his sandals on, and strode away: Then from the heavens the martial goddess flies Through the wild fields of air, and cleaves the skies: In form, a virgin in soft beauty's bloom, Skill'd in the illustrious labours of the loom.†
Book 16
- O'er earth (returns the prince) resounds thy name, Thy well-tried wisdom, and thy martial fame, Yet at thy words I start, in wonder lost; Can we engage, not decades but an host?†
Book 16
- Lawless he ravaged with his martial powers The Taphian pirates on Thesprotia's shores; Enraged, his life, his treasures they demand; Ulysses saved him from the avenger's hand.†
Book 16
- That instant from the skies The martial goddess to Ulysses flies: She waves her golden wand, and reassumes From every feature every grace that blooms; At once his vestures change; at once she sheds Age o'er his limbs, that tremble as he treads: Lest to the queen the swain with transport fly, Unable to contain the unruly joy; When near he drew, the prince breaks forth: "Proclaim What tidings, friend?†
Book 16
- But from the Hermaean height I cast a view, Where to the port a bark high-bounding flew; Her freight a shining band: with martial air Each poised his shield, and each advanced his spear; And, if aright these searching eyes survey, The eluded suitors stem the watery way.†
Book 16
- With power congenial join'd, propitious aid The chief adopted by the martial maid!†
Book 17
- And now the martial maid, by deeper wrongs To rouse Ulysses, points the suitors' tongues: Scornful of age, to taunt the virtuous man, Thoughtless and gay, Eurymachus began: "Hear me (he cries), confederates and friends!†
Book 18
- Whilst, forming plans of death, Ulysses stay'd, In counsel secret with the martial maid, Attendant nymphs in beauteous order wait The queen, descending from her bower of state.†
Book 19
- The royal bed an elder issue bless'd, Idomeneus whom Ilion fields attest Of matchless deeds: untrain'd to martial toil, I lived inglorious in my native isle.†
Book 19
- Attended by his brave maternal race, His grandsire sent him to the sylvan chase, Autolycus the bold (a mighty name For spotless faith and deeds of martial fame: Hermes, his patron god, those gifts bestow'd, Whose shrine with weanling lambs he wont to load).†
Book 19
- Thus anchor'd safe on reason's peaceful coast, Tempests of wrath his soul no longer toss'd; Restless his body rolls, to rage resign'd As one who long with pale-eyed famine pined, The savoury cates on glowing embers cast Incessant turns, impatient for repast Ulysses so, from side to side-devolved, In self-debate the suitor's doom resolved When in the form of mortal nymph array'd, From heaven descends the Jove-born martial maid; And'hovering o'er his head in view confess'd, The goddess thus her favourite care address'd: "O thou, of mortals most inured to woes!†
Book 20
- Meantime the menial train with unctious wood Heap'd high the genial hearth, Vulcanian food: When, early dress'd, advanced the royal heir; With manly grasp he waved a martial spear; A radiant sabre graced his purple zone, And on his foot the golden sandal shone.†
Book 20
- Then thus the prince: "To these shall we afford A fate so pure as by the martial sword?†
Book 22
- Be it my care, by loans, or martial toils, To throng my empty folds with gifts or spoils.†
Book 23
- (Thus Agamemnon's kingly shade rejoin'd) Thrice happy thou, to press the martial plain 'Midst heaps of heroes in thy quarrel slain: In clouds of smoke raised by the noble fray, Great and terrific e'en in death you lay, And deluges of blood flow'd round you every way†
Book 24
- Here now arriving, to his rustic band And martial son, Ulysses gave command: "Enter the house, and of the bristly swine Select the largest to the powers divine.†
Book 24
- Wide o'er the world their martial fame was spread; Regard thyself, the living and the dead.†
Book 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(martial) relating to war, the military, or fighting
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)