All 5 Uses of
prodigious
in
The Iliad
- Prodigiously they fought, putting their trust in their own power and in the marksmen on the wall above.†
Book 12
- 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
- Father Zeus, you send mankind prodigious follies.
Book 19 *prodigious = enormous (far beyond what is usual in magnitude)
- He cast about for ways to halt prodigious Akhilleus' feats of war and keep death from the Trojans.†
Book 21
- You come here to meet your doom, prodigious though you are, sure as you are in warfare.†
Book 21
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree