All 18 Uses
plunder
in
The Odyssey - translated by: Fitzgerald
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- BOOK I A GODDESS INTERVENES Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end, after he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy.†
Chpt 1plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
- For now the lords of the islands, Doulikhion and Same, wooded Zakynthos, and rocky Ithaka's young lords as well, are here courting my mother; and they use our house as if it were a house to plunder.†
Chpt 1 *
- My house is being plundered: is this courtesy?†
Chpt 2plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
- But when we plundered Priam's town and tower and took to the ships, God scattered the Akhaians.†
Chpt 3
- At dawn we dragged our ships to the lordly water, stowed aboard all our plunder and the slave women in their low hip girdles.†
Chpt 3
- Let these men take him to their hearts in honor and berth him in a ship, and send him home, with gifts of garments, gold, and bronze —so much he had not counted on from Troy could he have carried home his share of plunder.†
Chpt 5
- Plunder we took, and we enslaved the women, to make division, equal shares to all —but on the spot I told them: 'Back, and quickly!†
Chpt 9
- So there all day, until the sun went down, we made our feast on meat galore, and wine —wine from the ship, for our supply held out, so many jars were filled at Ismaros from stores of the Kikones that we plundered.†
Chpt 9plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
- He brought along so many presents, plunder out of Troy, that's it.†
Chpt 10
- And when we had pierced and sacked Priam's tall city he loaded his choice plunder and embarked with no scar on him; not a spear had grazed him nor the sword's edge in close work-common wounds one gets in war.†
Chpt 11
- This man could beat the best cross country runners in Krete, but he desired to take away my Trojan plunder, all I had fought and bled for, cutting through ranks in war and the cruel sea.†
Chpt 13
- That night I found asylum on a ship off shore skippered by gentlemen of Phoinikia; I gave all they could wish, out of my store of plunder, for passage, and for landing me at Pylos or Elis Town, where the Epeioi are in power.†
Chpt 13
- Even the outcasts of the earth, who bring piracy from the sea, and bear off plunder given by Zeus in shiploads-even those men deep in their hearts tremble for heaven's eye.†
Chpt 14
- But reckless greed carried them all away to plunder the rich bottomlands; they bore off wives and children, killed what men they found.†
Chpt 14
- There, indeed, I told the men to stand guard at the ships; I sent patrols out-out to rising ground; but reckless greed carried my crews away to plunder the Egyptian farms; they bore off wives and children, killed what men they found.†
Chpt 17
- That was the way he played it, hoping inwardly to span the great horn bow with corded gut and drill the iron with his shot-he, Antinoos, destined to be the first of all to savor blood from a biting arrow at his throat, a shaft drawn by the fingers of Odysseus whom he had mocked and plundered, leading on the rest, his boon companions.†
Chpt 21plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
- You took my house to plunder, twisted my maids to serve your beds.†
Chpt 22
- Battlespoil they want from our dead bodies to add to all they plundered here before.†
Chpt 22plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
Definitions:
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(1)
(plunder) to steal -- often after conquering the location with the goods
or:
the goods stolen - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)