All 19 Uses of
propitious
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Then let this dictate of my love prevail: Instant, to foreign realms prepare to sail, To learn your father's fortunes; Fame may prove, Or omen'd voice (the messenger of Jove), Propitious to the search.†
Book 1
- Descend once more, propitious to my aid.†
Book 2 *
- Still labouring on, till scarce at last we found Great Jove propitious, and our conquest crown'd.†
Book 3
- 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
- So guide me, goddess! so propitious shine On me, my consort, and my royal line!†
Book 3
- With power congenial join'd, propitious aid The chief adopted by the martial maid!†
Book 4
- "And now the twentieth sun, descending, laves His glowing axle in the western waves: Still with expanded sails we court in vain Propitious winds to waft us o'er the main; And the pale mariner at once deplores His drooping vigour and exhausted stores.†
Book 4
- "She ceased; and suppliant thus I made reply: 'O goddess I on thy aid my hopes rely; Dictate propitious to my duteous ear, What arts can captivate the changeful seer; For perilous the assay, unheard the toil, To elude the prescience of a god by guile.'†
Book 4
- Who, straight propitious, in prophetic strain Will teach you to repass the unmeasured main.†
Book 4
- But deign to say What fate propitious, or what dire dismay, Sustain those peers, the relics of our host, Whom I with Nestor on the Phrygian coast Embracing left?†
Book 4
- Thy son the gods propitious will restore, And bid thee cease his absence to deplore.†
Book 4
- Propitious to my wants a vest supply To guard the wretched from the inclement sky: So may the gods, who heaven and earth control, Crown the chaste wishes of thy virtuous soul, On thy soft hours their choicest blessings shed; Blest with a husband be thy bridal bed; Blest be thy husband with a blooming race, And lasting union crown your blissful days.†
Book 6
- Propitious Pallas, to secure her care, Around him spread a veil of thicken'd air; To shun the encounter of the vulgar crowd, Insulting still, inquisitive and loud.†
Book 7
- Rob not the god; and so propitious gales Attend thy voyage, and impel thy sails: But, if his herds ye seize, beneath the waves I see thy friends o'erwhelm'd in liquid graves!†
Book 11
- "I then: 'O nymph propitious to my prayer, Goddess divine, my guardian power, declare, Is the foul fiend from human vengeance freed?†
Book 12
- Rob not the gods! and so propitious gales Attend thy voyage, and impel thy sails; But if thy impious hands the flocks destroy, The gods, the gods avenge it, and ye die!†
Book 12
- With power congenial join'd, propitious aid The chief adopted by the martial maid!†
Book 17
- Eumaeus thus rejoin'd: "He only asks a more propitious hour, And shuns (who would not?†
Book 17
- Upspringing from his couch, with active haste The fleece and carpet in the dome he placed (The hide, without, imbibed the morning air); And thus the gods invoked with ardent prayer: "Jove, and eternal thrones! with heaven to friend, If the long series of my woes shall end; Of human race now rising from repose, Let one a blissful omen here disclose; And, to confirm my faith, propitious Jove!†
Book 20
Definition:
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(propitious) favorable (circumstances suggesting good things to come)