All 17 Uses
perish
in
The Odyssey - translated by: Fitzgerald
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- So perish all who do what he had done.†
Chpt 1perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- But he is lost; he came to grief and perished, and there's no help for us in someone's hoping he still may come; that sun has long gone down.†
Chpt 1 *perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- As for Odysseus, he perished far from home.†
Chpt 2
- You should have perished with him —then we'd be spared this nonsense in assembly, as good as telling Telemakhos to rage on; do you think you can gamble on a gift from him?†
Chpt 2
- One is alive, a castaway at sea; the other, Aias, perished with all hands —though first Poseidon landed him on Gyrai promontory, and saved him from the ocean.†
Chpt 4
- How lucky those Danaans were who perished on Troy's wide seaboard, serving the Atreidai!†
Chpt 5
- And now at last Odysseus would have perished, battered inhumanly, but he had the gift of self-possession from grey-eyed Athena.†
Chpt 5
- For Troy must perish, as ordained, that day she harbored the great horse of timber; hidden the flower of Akhaia lay, and bore slaughter and death upon the men of Troy.†
Chpt 8perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- I had touched the spot when sudden fear stayed me: if I killed him we perished there as well, for we could never move his ponderous doorway slab aside.†
Chpt 9perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- I got the longest boathook out and stood fending us off, with furious nods to all to put their backs into a racing stroke —row, row, or perish.†
Chpt 9perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- And Herakles, down the vistas of the dead, faded from sight; but I stood fast, awaiting other great souls who perished in times past.†
Chpt 11perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- For my part, never had I despaired; I felt sure of your coming home, though all your men should perish; but I never cared to fight Poseidon, Father's brother, in his baleful rage with you for taking his son's eye.†
Chpt 13perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- "Ai!" they said, "This vagabond would have done well to perish somewhere else, and make us no such rumpus.†
Chpt 18
- So now in turn each woman thrust her head into a noose and swung, yanked high in air, to perish there most piteously.†
Chpt 22
- Then how his shipmates killed Lord Helios' cattle and how Zeus thundering in towering heaven split their fast ship with his fuming bolt, so all hands perished.†
Chpt 23perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- Then came the soul of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, in black pain forever, surrounded by men-at-arms who perished with him in Aigisthos' hall.†
Chpt 24
- You perished, but your name will never die.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(perish) to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to existYou may encounter an informal expression, "Perish the thought." It means that the speaker hopes the thought will cease to exist and the thing it represents will never happen. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)