All 50 Uses of
vengeance
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- With tender pity touch'd, the goddess cried: "Soon may kind Heaven a sure relief provide, Soon may your sire discharge the vengeance due, And all your wrongs the proud oppressors rue!†
Book 1
- But of his wish'd return the care resign, Be future vengeance to the powers divine.†
Book 1 *
- Approach that hour! insufferable wrong Cries to the gods, and vengeance sleeps too long.†
Book 2
- How from my father should I vengeance dread!†
Book 2
- By him, and all the immortal host above (A sacred oath), if heaven the power supply, Vengeance I vow, and for your wrongs ye die.†
Book 2
- His guideless youth, if thy experienced age Mislead fallacious into idle rage, Vengeance deserved thy malice shall repress.†
Book 2
- Just was the vengeance, and to latest days Shall long posterity resound the praise.†
Book 3
- And yet who knows, but ripening lies in fate An hour of vengeance for the afflicted state; When great Ulysses shall suppress these harms, Ulysses singly, or all Greece in arms.†
Book 3
- The Greeks, (whose arms for nine long year employ'd Their force on Ilion, in the tenth destroy'd,) At length, embarking in a luckless hour, With conquest proud, incensed Minerva's power: Hence on the guilty race her vengeance hurl'd, With storms pursued them through the liquid world.†
Book 5
- This heard Minerva, but forbore to fly (By Neptune awed) apparent from the sky; Stern god! who raged with vengeance, unrestrain'd.†
Book 6
- Then mutual, thus they spoke: "Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!†
Book 8
- (Ulysses straight returns) Whose worth the splendours of thy race adorns, So may dread Jove (whose arm in vengeance forms The writhen bolt, and blackens heaven with storms), Restore me safe, through weary wanderings toss'd, To my dear country's ever-pleasing coast, As while the spirit in this bosom glows, To thee, my goddess, I address my vows; My life, thy gift I boast!"†
Book 8
- 'twas on no coward, no ignoble slave, Thou meditatest thy meal in yonder cave; But one, the vengeance fated from above Doom'd to inflict; the instrument of Jove.†
Book 9
- O thou of fraudful heart, shall I be led To share thy feast-rites, or ascend thy bed; That, all unarm'd, thy vengeance may have vent, And magic bind me, cold and impotent?†
Book 10
- But vengeance hastes amain!†
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
- "I then: 'O nymph propitious to my prayer, Goddess divine, my guardian power, declare, Is the foul fiend from human vengeance freed?†
Book 12
- A deed so dreadful all the gods alarms, Vengeance is on the wing, and Heaven in arms!'†
Book 12
- "Meantime Lampetie mounts the aerial way, And kindles into rage the god of day; " 'Vengeance, ye powers (he cries), and then whose hand Aims the red bolt, and hurls the writhen brand!†
Book 12
- Vengeance, ye gods! or I the skies forego, And bear the lamp of heaven to shades below.'†
Book 12
- His treasures next, Alcinous' gifts, they laid In the wild olive's unfrequented shade, Secure from theft; then launch'd the bark again, Resumed their oars, and measured back the main, Nor yet forgot old Ocean's dread supreme, The vengeance vow'd for eyeless Polypheme.†
Book 13
- Against yon destined head in vain I swore, And menaced vengeance, ere he reach'd his shore; To reach his natal shore was thy decree; Mild I obey'd, for who shall war with thee?†
Book 13
- is not vengeance thine?†
Book 13
- The shaker of the earth replies: "This then, I doom: to fix the gallant ship, A mark of vengeance on the sable deep; To warn the thoughtless, self-confiding train, No more unlicensed thus to brave the main.†
Book 13
- Yet had his mind through tedious absence lost The dear resemblance of his native coast; Besides, Minerva, to secure her care, Diffused around a veil of thickened air; For so the gods ordain'd to keep unseen His royal person from his friends and queen; Till the proud suitors for their crimes afford An ample vengeance to their injured lord.†
Book 13
- Vouchsafe the means of vengeance to debate, And plan with all thy arts the scene of fate.†
Book 13
- Pirates and conquerors of harden'd mind, The foes of peace, and scourges of mankind, To whom offending men are made a prey When Jove in vengeance gives a land away; E'en these, when of their ill-got spoils possess'd, Find sure tormentors in the guilty breast: Some voice of God close whispering from within, 'Wretch! this is villainy, and this is sin.'†
Book 14
- Thus he, benevolent: his unknown guest With hunger keen devours the savoury feast; While schemes of vengeance ripen in his breast.†
Book 14
- Our guilty head We turn'd to flight; the gathering vengeance spread On all parts round, and heaps on heaps lie dead.†
Book 14
- To Libya then he mediates the way; With guileful art a stranger to betray, And sell to bondage in a foreign land: Much doubting, yet compell'd I quit the strand, Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails, Aloof from Crete, before the northern gales: But when remote her chalky cliffs we lost, And far from ken of any other coast, When all was wild expanse of sea and air, Then doom'd high Jove due vengeance to prepare.†
Book 14
- Their wrongs and blasphemies ascend the sky, And pull descending vengeance from on high.†
Book 15
- Yet strive by prayer and counsel to restrain Their lawless insults, though thou strive in vain: For wicked ears are deaf to wisdom's call, And vengeance strikes whom Heaven has doom'd to fall.†
Book 16
- Once more attend: when she whose power inspires The thinking mind, my soul to vengeance fires, I give the sign: that instant, from beneath, Aloft convey the instruments of death, Armour and arms; and, if mistrust arise, Thus veil the truth in plausible disguise: " 'These glittering weapons, ere he sail'd to Troy, Ulysses view'd with stern heroic joy: Then, beaming o'er the illumined wall they shone; Now dust dishonours, all their lustre gone.†
Book 16
- One care remains, to note the loyal few Whose faith yet lasts among the menial crew; And noting, ere we rise in vengeance, prove Who love his prince; for sure you merit love.†
Book 16
- But reconsider, since the wisest err, Vengeance resolved, 'tis dangerous to defer.†
Book 16
- No: by the righteous powers of heaven I swear, His blood in vengeance smokes upon my spear.†
Book 16
- And call Jove's vengeance on their guilty deed.†
Book 17
- She bathed; and, robed in white, with all her train, To every god vow'd hecatombs to bleed, And call'd Jove's vengeance on the guilty deed, Arm'd with his lance, the prince then pass'd the gate, Two dogs behind, a faithful guard, await; Pallas his form with grace divine improves: The gazing crowd admires him as he moves.†
Book 17
- He (when Peiraeus ask'd for slaves to bring The gifts and treasures of the Spartan king) Thus thoughtful answer'd: "Those we shall not move, Dark and unconscious of the will of Jove; We know not yet the full event of all: Stabb'd in his palace if your prince must fall, Us, and our house, if treason must o'erthrow, Better a friend possess them than a foe; If death to these, and vengeance Heaven decree, Riches are welcome then, not else, to me.†
Book 17
- E'en now, this instant, great Ulysses, laid At rest, or wandering in his country's shade, Their guilty deeds, in hearing, and in view, Secret revolves; and plans the vengeance due.†
Book 17
- Soon as the suitors from the banquet rose, Minerva prompts the man of mighty woes To tempt their bounties with a suppliant's art, And learn the generous from the ignoble heart (Not but his soul, resentful as humane, Dooms to full vengeance all the offending train); With speaking eyes, and voice of plaintive sound, Humble he moves, imploring all around.†
Book 17
- The spreading clamour to their city flies, And horse and foot in mingled tumults rise: The reddening dawn reveals the hostile fields, Horrid with bristly spears, and gleaming shields: Jove thunder'd on their side: our guilty head We turn'd to flight; the gathering vengeance spread On all parts round, and heaps on heaps lay dead.†
Book 17
- From his own roof, with meditated blows, He strove to drive the man of mighty woes: "Hence, dotard! hence, and timely speed thy way, Lest dragg'd in vengeance thou repent thy stay; See how with nods assent yon princely train!†
Book 18
- Know, from the bounteous heavens all riches flow, And what man gives, the gods by man bestow; Proud as thou art, henceforth no more be proud, Lest I imprint my vengeance in thy blood; Old as I am, should once my fury burn, How would'st thou fly, nor e'en in thought return!"†
Book 18
- But mercy to the poor and stranger show, Lest Heaven in vengeance send some mightier woe.†
Book 18
- Then let not man be proud; but firm of mind, Bear the best humbly; and the worst resign'd; Be dumb when Heaven afflicts! unlike yon train Of haughty spoilers, insolently vain; Who make their queen and all her wealth a prey: But vengeance and Ulysses wing their way.†
Book 18
- Then to the servile task the monarch turns His royal hands: each torch refulgent burns With added day: meanwhile in museful mood, Absorb'd in thought, on vengeance fix'd he stood.†
Book 18
- Some pitying god (Ulysses sad replied) With vollied vengeance blast their towering pride!†
Book 20
- In vision wrapp'd, the Hyperesian seer Uprose, and thus divined the vengeance near: "O race to death devote! with Stygian shade Each destin'd peer impending fates invade; With tears your wan distorted cheeks are drown'd; With sanguine drops the walls are rubied round: Thick swarms the spacious hall with howling ghosts, To people Orcus, and the burning coasts!†
Book 20
- …ye fear'd no more Ulysses vengeful from the Trojan shore; While, to your lust and spoil a guardless prey, Our house, our wealth, our helpless handmaids lay: Not so content, with bolder frenzy fired, E'en to our bed presumptuous you aspired: Laws or divine or human fail'd to move, Or shame of men, or dread of gods above; Heedless alike of infamy or praise, Or Fame's eternal voice in future days; The hour of vengeance, wretches, now is come; Impending fate is yours, and instant doom."†
Book 22
Definition:
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(vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.)