All 14 Uses
brazen
in
The Odyssey - translated by: Fitzgerald
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- ~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ BOOK III THE LORD OF THE WESTERN APPROACHES The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.†
Chpt 3
- I'd be revenged for outrage on my insidious and brazen enemies.†
Chpt 3 *
- And this should give you pause, my son: don't stay too long away from home, leaving your treasure there, and brazen suitors near; they'll squander all you have or take it from you, and then how will your journey serve?†
Chpt 3
- A brazen axehead first she had to give him, two-bladed, and agreeable to the palm with a smooth-fitting haft of olive wood; next a well-polished adze; and then she led him to the island's tip where bigger timber grew —besides the alder and poplar, tall pine trees, long dead and seasoned, that would float him high.†
Chpt 5
- Odysseus, now alone before the palace, meditated a long time before crossing the brazen threshold of the great courtyard.†
Chpt 7
- There's no part of man more like a dog than brazen Belly, crying to be remembered-and it must be —when we are mortal weary and sick at heart; and that is my condition.†
Chpt 7
- All the others were crowding in, now, to the brazen house —Poseidon who embraces earth, and Hermes the runner, and Apollo, lord of Distance.†
Chpt 8
- For when the Trojans pulled it in, themselves, up to the citadel, they sat nearby with long-drawn-out and hapless argument —favoring, in the end, one course of three: either to stave the vault with brazen axes, or haul it to a cliff and pitch it down, or else to save it for the gods, a votive glory —the plan that could not but prevail.†
Chpt 8
- ~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ BOOK X THE GRACE OF THE WITCH We made our landfall on Aiolia Island, domain of Aiolos Hippotades, the wind king dear to the gods who never die —an isle adrift upon the sea, ringed round with brazen ramparts on a sheer cliffside.†
Chpt 10
- By and by it bubbled, and when the dazzling brazen vessel seethed she filled a bathtub to my waist, and bathed me, pouring a soothing blend on head and shoulders, warming the soreness of my joints away.†
Chpt 10
- Now the souls gathered, stirring out of Erebos, brides and young men, and men grown old in pain, and tender girls whose hearts were new to grief; many were there, too, torn by brazen lanceheads, battle-slain, bearing still their bloody gear.†
Chpt 11
- , put your mind on a way to reach and strike a crowd of brazen upstarts.†
Chpt 13
- And now a second time Melantho's voice rang brazen in Odysseus' ears: "Ah, stranger, are you still here, so creepy, late at night hanging about, looking the women over?†
Chpt 19
- Now flashed arrow from twanging bow clean as a whistle through every socket ring, and grazed not one, to thud with heavy brazen head beyond.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(brazen) bold and unrestrained by what others consider proper
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, brazen can reference something made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness). It can also reference an especially loud or harsh sound.