All 6 Uses
illustrious
in
The Odyssey - translated by: Fitzgerald
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- Have you heard what glory young Orestes won when he cut down that two-faced man, Aigisthos, for killing his illustrious father?†
Chpt 1 *
- Grant an illustrious name to me and to my children and my dear wife!†
Chpt 3
- So went our talk; then other shadows came, ladies in company, sent by Persephone —consorts or daughters of illustrious men —crowding about the black blood.†
Chpt 11
- Gazing at him, and stirred, I wept for pity, and spoke across to him: 'O son of Atreus, illustrious Lord Marshal, Agamemnon, what was the doom that brought you low in death?†
Chpt 11
- Now then, their colloquy at an end, they went their ways —Athena toward illustrious Lakedaimon far over sea, to join Odysseus' son.†
Chpt 13
- each would ask his neighbor; till in their midst the goatherd, Melanthios, raised his voice: "Hear just a word from me, my lords who court our illustrious queen!†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(illustrious) famous and admired; or worthy of admiration
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)