All 35 Uses
valor
in
The Iliad
(Auto-generated)
- He would riot enter the assembly of emulous men, nor ever go to war, but felt his valor staling in his breast with idleness, and missed the cries of battle.†
Book 1 *
- If you will do this, and they carry it out, you may find out which captains are poltroons and which are valorous; foot soldiers, too; as each will fight before his clansmen's eyes when clans make up our units in the battle.†
Book 2
- Their hundred ships were under the command of Agamemnon, son of Atreus: he it was who led by far the greatest number and the best, and glorying in arms he now put on, a soldier's bronze—distinguished amid heroes for valor and the troops he led to war.†
Book 2
- Come, both of us should put our minds on valor.†
Book 4
- 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
- Euryalos now broke their valor, cut them down, and bent to drag from their dead shoulders belted swords and bucklers.†
Book 6
- He sent me here to Troy commanding me to act always with valor, always to be most noble, never to shame the line of my progenitors, great men first in Ephyra, then in Lykia.†
Book 6
- Not by the Trojans' anguish on that day am I so overborne in mind—the pain of Hekabe herself, or Priam king, or of my brothers, many and valorous, who will have fallen in dust before our enemies— as by your own grief, when some armed Akhaian takes you in tears, your free life stripped away.†
Book 6
- Midway in the line this ship was placed; one there could send his voice as far as Telamonian Aias' camp at one end, or Akhilleus' at the pther— for these had drawn their ships up on the flanks, relying on their valor and force of arms.†
Book 8
- By a blade's turn, our good ships are saved or lost, unless you arm your valor.†
Book 9
- Hektor had kept his eyes on this departure and gave a shout to Trojans and Lykians: "Trojans, Lykians, and Dardan spears, remember valor, friends, and fight like men.†
Book 11
- And grimly vexed, he spoke to his own valor: "Here is trouble....What will become of me?†
Book 11
- Not so Akhilleus, who alone gains by his valor.†
Book 11
- Now while the Lapiths made these Mils and took the dead men's flashing armor, those who followed Poulydamas and Hektor—their young troops in number and valor greatest, sworn to breach the Akhaian wall and set the ships afire— halted hesitant at the moat.†
Book 12
- His valor summons him to attempt homesteads and flocks— and though he find herdsmen on hand with dogs and spears to guard the sheep, he will not turn without a fling at the stockade.†
Book 12
- So valor drove Sarpedon to the wall to make a breakthrough.†
Book 12
- Facing them, the Argives raised a shout; they had not lost their grip on valor but now braced to meet the Trojan onslaught.†
Book 13
- My life upon it, Hektor for all his valor cannot hold us!†
Book 14
- Apollo must then brace Hektor for the fight and breathe new valor in him, blot from his memory the pangs that now wear out his spirit.†
Book 15
- Arouse his utmost valor till, in rout, the Akhaians reach the ships and Helle's waters.†
Book 15
- But when he made it quake with lightning, staring Danaans in the face, and gave, himself, a deafening battlecry, he stunned them all and they forgot their valor.†
Book 15
- Against him then came Dolops, a good spearman, skilled in warfare, valorous, fathered by Lampos, best of men, a son of Laomedon.†
Book 15
- They brought to pass what Zeus commanded, and he kept their valor steadily awake.†
Book 15
- This way he prayed, and Phoibos Apollo heard him, cutting his pain and making the dark blood dry on his deep wound, then filled his heart with valor.†
Book 16
- Glaukos, commander of Lykians, turned first, to bring down valorous Bathykles, the son of Khalkon, one who had his home in Hellas, fortunate and rich among the Myrmidons.†
Book 16
- With this, he went for the dead man with a spring like a lion, one that has taken a chest wound while ravaging a cattle pen—his valor his undoing.†
Book 16
- To the Trojans now he gave a mighty shout: "Trojans, Lykians, hard-fighting Dardanoi, be men, old friends, remember your own valor, while I put on Akhilleus' beautiful arms, taken from Patroklos when I killed him.†
Book 17
- Plunging ahead, he broke the Trojans, valorous as a boar in mountain land who scatters dogs and men with ease, wheeling upon them in a glade.†
Book 17
- For a while they stream out in full cry, ready to rend him, but when he wheels to take them on, staldng everything on his own valor, they recoil and swerve this way and that.†
Book 17
- Hektor three times had the feet within his grasp and strove to wrest Patroklos backward, shouting to all the Trojans—but three times the pair named Aias in their valor shook him off.†
Book 18
- Her promise gave her son wholehearted valor.†
Book 19
- Or one of us could back Akhilleus, give him the edge in power, in stamina, in valor, let him know the high immortals love him!†
Book 20
- Opposing him Akhilleus now came up like a fierce lion that a whole countryside is out to kill: he comes heedless at first, but when some yeoman puts a spear into him, he gapes and crouches, foam on his fangs; his mighty heart within him groans as he lashes both flanks with his tail, urging his valor on to fight; he glares and bounds ahead, hoping to make a kill or else himself to perish in the tumult.†
Book 20
- He cheered the Trojans, and they lifted spears against Akhilleus, all in a clump, in valor closing ranks, while a battlecry went up.†
Book 20
- At first by a discus throw he had been outrun, but then he caught up fast, helped by the valor of Agamemnon's mare, silken-coated Aithe.†
Book 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(valor) exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger -- especially in battle
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)