All 20 Uses
mane
in
The Iliad
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- He brought his horses to a halt, made fast his taut reins to the chariot rail, and flung himself upon Aineias' long-maned beautiful team.†
Book 5
- Head held high with mane over his shoulders flying, his dazzling work of finely jointed knees takes him around the pasture haunts of horses.†
Book 6 *mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- Up to his car he backed his bronze-shod team of aerial runners, long manes blowing gold.†
Book 8
- No, one horse had been disabled by Alexandras, whose arrow hit him high, just at the spot most vulnerable, where the springing "mane begins.†
Book 8mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- Then acting for the goddesses the Hours unharnessed those fine horses with long manes and tied them up at their ambrosial troughs, Against the glittering wall they stood the car, its tilted pole upended, and the goddesses " rested on golden chairs amid the gods, with hearts still beating high.†
Book 8
- At this, he shook out reins to his glossy team with blowing manes, and used the cracking whip.†
Book 11
- Here he entered; into his chariot shafts he backed his racing team with golden manes, put on his golden mantle, took his whip of pliant gold, stepped up into his car, and rolled out on the waves.†
Book 13
- Just so, with tossing plumes like manes, these two lugged Imbrios, and stripped him of his gear.†
Book 13
- Hektor drew up the Trojan lines opposing, and now the blue-maned god of sea and Hektor brought to a dreadful pitch the clash of war, one giving heart to Trojans, one to Argives.†
Book 14
- So Iris flew in swiftness of desire, halting beside the Earthshaker to say: "O girdler of the earth, sea-god, blue-maned, I bear a message from the lord of storm.†
Book 15
- As when a stallion, long in the stall and full-fed at his trough, snaps his halter and goes cantering off across a field to splash in a clear stream, rearing his head aloft triumphantly with mane tossed on his shoulders, glorying in his own splendor, and with driving knees seeking familiar meadowland and pasture: < just so Hektor, sure-footed and swift, sped on the chariots at the god's command.†
Book 15mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- Manes along the yoke were soiled as they hung forward under yokepads.†
Book 17
- Shaking the dust to earth from their long manes, they bore the war-car swiftly amid the armies.†
Book 17
- Away, and toward the ships, Idomeneus lashed his horses with long manes, for fear had entered him at last.†
Book 17
- To this, from under the yoke, the nimble Xanthos answered, and hung his head, so that his mane dropped forward from the yokepad to the ground— Hera whose arms are white as ivory gave him a voice to say: "Yes, we shall save you, this time, too, Akhilleus in your strength!†
Book 19mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- These mares Boreas the north wind loved even as they grazed, and in the likeness of a black-maned stallion chose his brood-mares.†
Book 20
- His knees gave way and down he went on seven hundred feet of earth, his long mane in the dust, and armor clanged upon him.†
Book 21mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- But I am out of it, so are my horses, now they have lost their splendid charioteer, the kind man, who so often glossed their manes with oil when they had scrubbed their bodies down.†
Book 23
- Now where they stand they droop their heads for him, their manes brushing the ground, and grieve at heart.†
Book 23
- Over the plain they covered distance quickly, running at full stretch, leaving the ships behind, as dust rose under the barrels of the horses like a cloud raised by a whirlwind, and their manes flew backward in the windstream as they ran.†
Book 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(mane) long coarse hair such as that which grows around a lion's head or on the back of a horse's neck
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, mane can refer to long coarse hair on another animal; or even to a person's hair.