All 26 Uses
brazen
in
The Iliad
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- The rank and file I shall not name; I could not, if I were gifted with ten tongues and voices unfaltering, and a brazen heart within me, unless the Muses, daughters of Olympian Zeus beyond the stormcloud, could recall all those who sailed for the campaign at Troy.†
Book 2
- Nothing brazen broke— no, but the point of bronze at impact bent in that hard armor.†
Book 3 *
- At this he made his cast, his weapon being guided by Athena to cleave Pandaros' nose beside the eye and shatter his white teeth: his tongue the brazen spearhead severed, tip from root, then plowing on came out beneath his chin.†
Book 5
- When in range he leaped high after her and with his point wounded her trailing hand: the brazen lancehead slashed her heavenly robe, worked by the Graces, and cut the tender skin upon her palm.†
Book 5
- Ares bore it, when Otos and Ephialtes, Aloeus' giant sons, put him in chains: he lay for thirteen moons in a brazen jar, until that glutton of war might well have perished had Eeriboia, their stepmother, not told Hermes: Hermes broke him free more dead than alive, worn out by the iron chain.†
Book 5
- See in the mind's eye wind blowing chaff oh ancient threshing floors when men with fans toss up the trodden sheaves, and yellow-haired Demeter, puff by puff, divides the chaff and grain: how all day long in bleaching sun strawpiles grow white: so white grew those Akhaian figures in the dustcloud churned to the brazen sky by horses' hooves as chariots intermingled, as the drivers turned and turned—carrying their hands high and forward gallantly despite fatigue.†
Book 5
- Hebe fitted upon her chariot, left and right, the brazen wheels with eight shinbones, or spokes, around the iron axle-tree: all gold her felloes are, unworn, for warped upon them are tires of bronze, a marvel; and the hubs are silver, turning smoothly on each side.†
Book 5
- She had the look of Stentor, whose brazen lungs could give a battle shout as loud as fifty soldiers, trumpeting: "Shame, shame, Argives: cowards!†
Book 5
- Then brazen Ares howled to heaven, terrible to hear as roaring from ten thousand men in battle when long battalions clash.†
Book 5
- Like a black vapor from a thunderhead riding aloft on stormwind brewed by heait, so brazen Ares looked to Diomedes 4 as he rose heavenward amid the clouds.†
Book 5
- So they prayed, while Aias made his brazen helmet snug, fitted his shield and sword strap.†
Book 7
- Iron the gates are, brazen the doorslab, and the depth from hell as great as heavens utmost height from earth.†
Book 8
- With Hera he cannot be so furious: her habit is to balk him, say what he will; but as for you, you are a brazen bitch if you dare lift your towering spear against him!†
Book 8
- Only, lift up your staff and swear that my reward will be that team and brazen car that bear the son of Peleus.†
Book 10
- Last, two tough spears he took, with brazen spearheads whetted sharp, and that clear bronze reflected gleams of sunlight far into heaven, Athena thundered overhead, and Hera thundered honor in heaven to golden Myk&ne's lord.†
Book 11
- Now mixing Pramnian wine for them in this, the servant like a goddess in demeanor grated a goat's milk cheese over the wine upon a brazen grater, and sifted in white barley meal.†
Book 11
- He pierced Alkmaon, son of Thestor, and drew the spearblade out, as doubling forward after the spear the man fell hard, his brazen gear clanging.†
Book 12
- Bristling spines of long flesh-tearing spears went home in the deadly press; and a man's eyes failed before the flash of brazen helmets, cuirasses like mirrors, and bright shields in sunlight clashing.†
Book 13
- Meanwhile the son of Atreus, clarion in battle, struck the hand that held the bow: he drove his brazen spearhead through the knuckles into the bowstave.†
Book 13
- As Deiokhos ran, Paris hit his shoulder from behind and drove the brazen spearhead through his chest.†
Book 15
- On seeing Menoitios' powerful son, and with him Automedon, aflash with brazen gear, the Trojan ranks broke, and they caught their breath, imagining that Akhilleus the swift fighter had put aside his wrath for friendship's sake.†
Book 16
- The Akhaians formed a line in singleness of heart around Patroklos, walled by brazen shields.†
Book 17
- Aias leaping through the melee struck his helm with brazen cheekplates; round the point the ridge that bore the crest crumpled at impact, cleft by a great spear in a massive hand.†
Book 17
- And that was how that battle went—a din of ironhearted men through barren air rose to the sky all brazen.†
Book 17
- The hearts of men quailed, hearing that brazen voice.†
Book 18
- His soldiers now unbuckled all their brazen gear, freed the whinnying horses of their harness, and sat down, in their hundreds, all before Akhilleus' ship.†
Book 23
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.