All 27 Uses
plunder
in
The Iliad
(Auto-generated)
- When Hera speaks out against the plan, Zeus affects to be perplexed: "Strange one, how can Priam and Priam's sons have hurt you so that you are possessed to see the trim stronghold of Ilion plundered?†
Book Intr.plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
- Akhilleus explains that the plunder has already been divided and so he urges Agamemnon to take the long view—he'll be compensated many times over when Troy falls.†
Book Intr.
- The gods who hold Olympos, may they grant you plunder of Priam's town and a fair wind home, but let me have my daughter back for ransom as you revere Apollo, son of Zeus!†
Book 1
- Everything plundered from the towns has been distributed; should troops turn all that in?†
Book 1plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
- Just let the girl go, in the god's name, now; we'll make it up to you, twice over, three times over, on that day Zeus gives us leave to plunder Troy behind her rings of stone.†
Book 1
- Never have I had plunder like your own from any Trojan stronghold battered down by the Akhaians.†
Book 1
- We sailed out raiding, and we took by storm that ancient town of Eetion called Thebe, plundered the place, brought slaves and spoils away.†
Book 1plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
- From many Asian cities came these lances, and it is they who hedge me out and hinder me from plundering the fortress town of Troy.†
Book 2 *plundering = stealing
- Now for their sake he spoke: "Lord Agamemnon, son of Atreus, king, your troops are willing to let you seem disgraced in all men's eyes; they will not carry through the work they swore to en route from Argos, from the bluegrass land, never to turn back till they plundered Troy.†
Book 2plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
- Tlepolemos, the son of Herakles, had led nine ships from Rhodes: impetuous men, the Rhodians, in three regional divisions: Lindos, Ielysos, and bright Kameiros, serving under Tlepolemos, the spearman, whose mother, Astyokheia, had been taken by Herakles, who brought her from Ephyra out of the Selleeis river valley, where he had plundered many noble towns.†
Book 2
- Coldly annoyed, the Lord Zeus, who drives the clouds of heaven, answered: "Strange one, how can Priam and Priam's sons have hurt you so that you are possessed to see the trim stronghold of Ilion plundered?†
Book 4
- Lord Priam's fortress would go down before us, taken in a day, and plundered at our hands.†
Book 4
- O untiring goddess, daughter of mighty Zeus who bears the stormcloud, our word to Menelaos was a fraud— that he should never sail for home before he plundered Ilion!†
Book 5
- My father great Akhilleus killed when he besieged and plundered Thebe, our high town, citadel of Kilikians.†
Book 6
- They can fight on tomorrow until they find the end ordained for Ilion— as that is all you goddesses have at heart, the plundering of this town.†
Book 7plundering = stealing
- Others here will stay until we plunder Troy!†
Book 9
- If the immortals grant us the plundering of Priam's town, let him come forward when the spoils are shared and load his ship with bars of gold and bronze.†
Book 9plundering = stealing
- In sea raids I plundered a dozen towns, eleven in expeditions overland through Trojan country, and the treasure taken out of them all, great heaps of handsome things, I carried back each time to Agamemnon.†
Book 9plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
- Mulled drink was prepared for them by softly braided Hekamede, Nestor's prize from Akhilleus' plundering of Tenedos— Arsinoos' daughter.†
Book 11plundering = stealing
- To the gods, they gave no hekatombs that might have won them to guard the wall as shield for the deepsea craft and plunder that it ringed.†
Book 12
- But after the flower of Troy went down, with many Argives fallen or bereft, when Priam's Troy was plundered in the tenth year, and the Argives shipped again for their dear homelands—then Poseidon and Apollo joined to work erosion of the wall by fury of rivers borne in flood against it, all that flow seaward from Ida: Rhesos, Heptaporos, Karesos, Rhodios, Grenikos, Aisepos, Skamander's ancient stream, and Simoeis round which so many shields and crested helms had crashed in dust with men who were half gods.†
Book 12plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
- Well, we could promise, and fulfill it, too, to give you Agamemnon's loveliest daughter brought out of Argos for you as your bride— if you would join to plunder Troy.†
Book 13
- Sooner your well-built town shall fall to our assault, taken by storm and plundered.†
Book 13plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
- One other time you taught me something, giving me a mission, when Herakles, the prodigious son of Zeus, had plundered Ilion and come away.†
Book 14
- It will not be the first time: once before I met him, —and he drove me with his spear from Ida, when he raided herds of ours and took Lyrnessos, plundered Pedasos.†
Book 20
- Then he set out a meteorite, a missile Eetion in power used to hurl— before Akhilleus brought him down and took this fused iron with plunder in his ships.†
Book 23
- Long before, great Troy will go down plundered, citadel and all, now that you are lost, who guarded it and kept it, and preserved its wives and children.†
Book 24plundered = stole goods; or stolen goods
Definitions:
-
(1)
(plunder) to steal -- often after conquering the location with the goods
or:
the goods stolen - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)