All 4 Uses of
strait
in
The Odyssey - translated by: Fitzgerald
- Just give me a fast ship and twenty men; I'll intercept him, board him in the strait between the crags of Same and this island.
Chpt 4strait = narrow water passage
- One narrow strait may take you through his blows: denial of yourself, restraint of shipmates.
Chpt 11 *
- And all this time, in travail, sobbing, gaining on the current, we rowed into the strait-Skylla to port and on our starboard beam Kharybdis, dire gorge of the salt sea tide.
Chpt 12
- Once through the strait, nine days I drifted in the open sea before I made shore, buoyed up by the gods, upon Ogygia Isle.
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(strait as in: Strait of Hormuz) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water