All 8 Uses
harangue
in
The Iliad
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- Look to it then, we arm the troops for action— but let me test them first, in that harangue that custom calls for.†
Book 2
- Like a wild boar, with his great heart, this captain in the van harangued his companies, and in the rear Meriones did likewise.†
Book 4 *
- With this he left them there, and passing on to others as they formed, he found Lord Nestor, the Pylian master orator, haranguing soldiers of Pylos, forming them for action around the captains Pelagon, Alastor, Khromios, Haimon, and the marshal, Bias.†
Book 4haranguing = trying to persuade, or criticizing in an impassioned and often annoying manner
- So these Danaans held their ground against the Trojans and never stirred, while Agamemnon passed amid the ranks haranguing troops: "Dear friends, be men, choose valor and pride in one another when shock of combat comes.†
Book 5
- Agamemnon's harangue reached all his troops: "Shame, shame, you pack of dogs, you only looked well.†
Book 8
- As from night clouds a baleful summer star will blaze into the clear, then fade in cloud, so Hektor shone in front or became hidden when he harangued the rear ranks—his whole form in bronze aflash like lightning of Father Zeus.†
Book 11
- Expecting gold and gifts of luxury from Alexandras, Antimakhos had harangued against returning Helen to Menelaos.†
Book 11
- Now I fear their champion, Hektor, will make good his word, the threat he made in his harangue to Trojans, not to return to Ilion from the beachhead until he fired our ships and killed our men.†
Book 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(harangue) to try to persuade, or to criticize in an impassioned and often annoying manner; or a speech with such an intent
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)