All 23 Uses
azure
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
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- Here paused the god; and pensive thus replies Minerva, graceful with her azure eyes: "O thou!†
Book 1azure = sky-blue
- Defer the promised boon (the goddess cries, Celestial azure brightening in her eyes), And let me now regain the Reithrian port; From Temese return'd, your royal court I shall revisit, and that pledge receive; And gifts, memorial of our friendship, leave.†
Book 1
- Did not the sun, through heaven's wide azure roll'd, For three long years the royal fraud behold?†
Book 2 *
- 'Whoe'er thou art (the azure goddess cries) Thy conduct ill-deserves the praise of wise: Is death thy choice, or misery thy boast, That here inglorious, on a barren coast, Thy brave associates droop, a meagre train, With famine pale, and ask thy care in vain?'†
Book 4
- Emerging from the wave, The Phocas swift surround his rocky cave, Frequent and full; the consecrated train Of her, whose azure trident awes the main; There wallowing warm, the enormous herd exhales An oily steam, and taints the noontide gales.†
Book 4
- Arrived, to form along the appointed strand For each a bed, she scoops the hilly sand; Then, from her azure cave the finny spoils Of four vast Phocae takes, to veil her wiles; Beneath the finny spoils extended prone, Hard toil!†
Book 4
- So watery fowl, that seek their fishy food, With wings expanded o'er the foaming flood, Now sailing smooth the level surface sweep, Now dip their pinions in the briny deep; Thus o'er the word of waters Hermes flew, Till now the distant island rose in view: Then, swift ascending from the azure wave, he took the path that winded to the cave.†
Book 5
- But him, thus voyaging the deeps below, From far, on Solyme's aerial brow, The king of ocean saw, and seeing burn'd (From AEthiopia's happy climes return'd); The raging monarch shook his azure head, And thus in secret to his soul he said: "Heavens!†
Book 5
- (Herself a mortal once, of Cadmus' strain, But now an azure sister of the main) Swift as a sea-mew springing from the flood, All radiant on the raft the goddess stood; Then thus address'd him: "Thou whom heaven decrees To Neptune's wrath, stern tyrant of the seas†
Book 5
- To this calm port the glad Ulysses press'd, And hail'd the river, and its god address'd: "Whoe'er thou art, before whose stream unknown I bend, a suppliant at thy watery throne, Hear, azure king!†
Book 5
- The voice of nymphs that haunt the sylvan bowers, The fair-hair'd Dryads of the shady wood; Or azure daughters of the silver flood; Or human voice?†
Book 6
- When near the famed Phaeacian walls he drew, The beauteous city opening to his view, His step a virgin met, and stood before: A polish'd urn the seeming virgin bore, And youthful smiled; but in the low disguise Lay hid the goddess with the azure eyes.†
Book 7
- a mortal, like thyself, am I; No glorious native of yon azure sky: In form, ah how unlike their heavenly kind!†
Book 7
- Long as the morning sun increasing bright O'er heaven's pure azure spreads the glowing light, Promiscuous death the form of war confounds, Each adverse battle gored with equal wounds; But when his evening wheels o'erhung the main, Then conquest crown'd the fierce Ciconian train.†
Book 9
- When stung with hunger she embroils the flood, The sea-dog and the dolphin are her food; She makes the huge leviathan her prey, And all the monsters of the watery way; The swiftest racer of the azure plain Here fills her sails, and spreads her oars in vain; Fell Scylla rises, in her fury roars, At once six mouths expands, at once six men devours.†
Book 12
- Now far the night advanced her gloomy reign, And setting stars roll'd down the azure plain: When at the voice of Jove wild whirlwinds rise, And clouds and double darkness veil the skies; The moon, the stars, the bright ethereal host Seem as extinct, and all their splendours lost: The furious tempest roars with dreadful sound: Air thunders, rolls the ocean, groans the ground.†
Book 12
- To whom the thundering Power: 'O source of day Whose radiant lamp adorns the azure way, Still may thy beams through heaven's bright portal rise, The joy of earth, the glory of the skies: Lo!†
Book 12
- The goddess of the azure eyes began: "Son of Laertes!†
Book 13
- But bear, oh bear me o'er yon azure flood; Receive the suppliant!†
Book 15
- With bandage firm Ulysses' knee they bound; Then, chanting mystic lays, the closing wound Of sacred melody confess'd the force; The tides of life regain'd their azure course.†
Book 19
- Struck at the news, thy azure mother came, The sea-green sisters waited on the dame: A voice of loud lament through all the main Was heard; and terror seized the Grecian train: Back to their ships the frighted host had fled; But Nestor spoke, they listen'd and obey'd (From old experience Nestor's counsel springs, And long vicissitudes of human things): 'Forbear your flight: fair Thetis from the main To mourn Achilles leads her azure train.'†
Book 24
- Struck at the news, thy azure mother came, The sea-green sisters waited on the dame: A voice of loud lament through all the main Was heard; and terror seized the Grecian train: Back to their ships the frighted host had fled; But Nestor spoke, they listen'd and obey'd (From old experience Nestor's counsel springs, And long vicissitudes of human things): 'Forbear your flight: fair Thetis from the main To mourn Achilles leads her azure train.'†
Book 24
- Such were the games by azure Thetis given, And such thy honours, O beloved of Heaven!†
Book 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(azure) a shade of blue similar to that of the sky on a clear sunny day
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Azure is also the name of an important cloud-computing service operated by Microsoft, and a rare given name.