All 9 Uses
portent
in
The Iliad
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- Calamity is all you care about, or see, no happy portents; and you bring to pass nothing agreeable.†
Book 1 *portents = signs of things about to happen
- The water welled up shining there, and in that place the great portent appeared.†
Book 2
- Seeing this portent of the gods had visited our sacrifices, Kalkhas told the meaning before us all, at once.†
Book 2
- Here was a portent for us, and a great one, granted us by inscrutable Zeus—a promise long to be in fulfillment—but the fame of that event will never die.†
Book 2
- Maion he spared and sent home, bid by portents from the gods.†
Book 4portents = signs of things about to happen
- She hung the stormcloud shield with raveled tassels ominous from her shoulder: all around upon it in a garland Rout was figured,' Enmity, Force, and Chase that chills the blood, concentered on the Gorgon's head, reptilian seething Fear—a portent of the stormking.†
Book 5
- The snake fell in the mass of troops, and Trojans shuddered to see the rippling thing lie in their midst, a portent from Lord Zeus who bears the stormcloud.†
Book 12
- The end, I think, is what the bird portended— if a true portent—when we wished to cross, the eagle bearing left across the army, beating upward, grappling this great snake, alive.†
Book 12
- One and only one portent is best: defend our fatherland!†
Book 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(portent) a sign of something about to happen
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)