All 20 Uses of
perish
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- 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
- The watery way ill-fated if thou try, All, all must perish, and by fraud you die!†
Book 2 *
- The darling object of your royal care Is marked to perish in a deathful snare; Before he anchors in his native port, From Pyle re-sailing and the Spartan court; Horrid to speak! in ambush is decreed The hope and heir of Ithaca to bleed!†
Book 4
- As when the polypus, from forth his cave Torn with full force, reluctant beats the wave, His ragged claws are stuck with stones and sands; So the rough rock had shagg'd Ulysses hands, And now had perish'd, whelm'd beneath the main, The unhappy man; e'en fate had been in vain; But all-subduing Pallas lent her power, And prudence saved him in the needful hour.†
Book 5
- For know, from ocean's god Nausithous sprung, And Peribaea, beautiful and young (Eurymedon's last hope, who ruled of old The race of giants, impious, proud, and bold: Perish'd the nation in unrighteous war, Perish'd the prince, and left this only heir), Who now, by Neptune's amorous power compress'd, Produced a monarch that his people bless'd, Father and prince of the Phaeacian name; From him Rhexenor and Alcinous came.†
Book 7
- For know, from ocean's god Nausithous sprung, And Peribaea, beautiful and young (Eurymedon's last hope, who ruled of old The race of giants, impious, proud, and bold: Perish'd the nation in unrighteous war, Perish'd the prince, and left this only heir), Who now, by Neptune's amorous power compress'd, Produced a monarch that his people bless'd, Father and prince of the Phaeacian name; From him Rhexenor and Alcinous came.†
Book 7
- From all the sons of earth unrivall'd praise I justly claim; but yield to better days, To those famed days when great Alcides rose, And Eurytus, who bade the gods be foes (Vain Eurytus, whose art became his crime, Swept from the earth, he perish'd in his prime: Sudden the irremeable way he trod, Who boldly durst defy the bowyer god).†
Book 8
- Perish those arms which by the gods' decree Accursed our army with the loss of thee!†
Book 11
- He relates how, after his return from the shades, he was sent by Circe on his voyage, by the coast of the Sirens, and by the strait of Scylla and Charybdis: the manner in which he escaped those dangers: how, being cast on the island Trinacria, his companions destroyed the oxen of the Sun: the vengeance that followed; how all perished by shipwreck except himself, who, swimming on the mast of the ship, arrived on the island of Calypso.†
Book 12
- Oh, if thy vessel plough the direful waves, When seas retreating roar within her caves, Ye perish all! though he who rules the main Lends his strong aid, his aid he lends in vain.†
Book 12
- Fate hangs o'er all; on you it lies To live or perish! to be safe, be wise!†
Book 12
- Now cold he lies, to death's embrace resign'd: Ah, perish Helen! perish all her kind!†
Book 14
- perish all her kind!†
Book 14
- So perish'd he: and left (for ever lost) Much woe to all, but sure to me the most.†
Book 14
- Oh! had he perish'd on some well-fought day, Or in his friend's embraces died away!†
Book 14
- Long, long since perish'd on a distant shore!†
Book 17
- His sacrilegious train, who dared to prey On herds devoted to the god of day, Were doom'd by Jove, and Phoebus' just decree, To perish in the rough Trinacrian sea.†
Book 19
- Or, haply perish'd on some distant coast, In stygian gloom he glides, a pensive ghost!†
Book 20
- Antinous saw, and said: "Hence to your fields, ye rustics! hence away, Nor stain with grief the pleasures of the day; Nor to the royal heart recall in vain The sad remembrance of a perish'd man.†
Book 21
- Let each at once discharge the deadly dart, One sure of six shall reach Ulysses' heart: The rest must perish, their great leader slain: Thus shall one stroke the glory lost regain."†
Book 22
Definition:
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(perish) to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to existeditor's notes: You may encounter an informal expression, "Perish the thought." It means that the speaker hopes the thought will cease to exist and the thing it represents will never happen.