All 27 Uses
rampart
in
The Iliad
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- BOOK SEVEN A Combat and a Rampart As Hektor spoke he came out through the gateway running, with Alexandras beside him, both resolved on battle.†
Book 7 *
- We'll bring earth for a single mound about the fire, common earth from landward; based on this, a line of ramparts to defend our ships and troops—with gates well fitted in the walls to leave a way out for our chariots.†
Book 7
- Based on this they built a wall, a rampart with high towers, to be protection for their ships and men.†
Book 7
- The long-haired carls of Akhaia put up a rampart, inshore from the ships, and ran a moat around; but they would not propitiate us with glory of hekatombs!†
Book 7
- Never will I give way to you, and never will you climb hand over hand upon our ramparts or load our women in your ships: you face your doom from me!†
Book 8
- Meanwhile, below, and inland from the ships, the strip of shore enclosed by moat and rampart now was thronged with chariots and men, rolled back by whirlwind Ares' peer, the son of Priam, as glory shone on him from Zeus.†
Book 8
- I'll see if Diomedes has the power to force me from the ships, back on the rampart, or if I kill him and take home his gear, wet with his blood.†
Book 8
- But let the sentries take their rest on watch outside the rampart near the moat; those are my orders for them.†
Book 9
- Seven lieutenants, each with a hundred men, carrying long spears, issued from the camp for outposts chosen between ditch and rampart.†
Book 9
- Trojans and allies are encamped tonight in pride before our ramparts, at our sterns, and through their army burn a thousand fires.†
Book 9
- By god, he has achieved imposing work without me, a rampart piled up overnight, a ditch running beyond it, broad and deep, with stakes implanted in it!†
Book 9
- He had been standing on his ship's high stern to view the moil of war, over the rampart, heart-rending struggle and pursuit.†
Book 11
- BOOK TWELVE — The Rampart Breached†
Book 12
- After this fashion in his own hut Menoitios' gallant son tended Eurypylos, the wounded man, while Argives fought the Trojan mass attack their moat no longer could contain—nor could the rampart they had built to save the ships, carrying the moat around it.†
Book 12
- While Hektor lived and while Akhilleus raged, and while Lord Priam's town lived on, unsacked, so long the Akhaians' rampart stood.†
Book 12
- These rivers were diverted at their mouths and blent into one river by Apollo, who sent that flood nine days against the rampart.†
Book 12
- Around the rampart at every point, blaze upon blaze of war leapt upward.†
Book 12
- Passing inside the wall, they found Menestheus' tower and those who manned it hard beset, as now the Lykian chiefs like a thundersquall loomed at the rampart.†
Book 12
- Elsewhere I do not fear the free spear-arms of Trojans, though they've crossed our big rampart in force.†
Book 13
- Dead on their feet from toil of war, these men were losing heart; now they could see the Trojans massing as they crossed the rampart.†
Book 13
- Any I caught I pitched headfirst over our rampart, half-dead, down to earth!†
Book 15
- As for the Akhaian rampart, in one sweep he leveled it, as a boy on the seashore wipes out a wall of sand he built in a child's game: with feet and hands, for fun, he scatters it again.†
Book 15
- Like a surging wave that comes inboard a ship when a gale blows— wind giving impetus to sea—the Trojans crossed the rampart with a mighty cry and whipped their chariots toward the sterns.†
Book 15
- As long as both sides fought around the rampart still remote from the ships, Patroklos stayed inside the shelter with Eurypylos to give him pleasure, talking, and to treat his aching wound with salve against the pain; but when he knew the Trojans had crossed over, knew by their cry the Danaans were in rout, he groaned and smote his thighs with open hands, and miserably he said: "Eurypylos, I cannot linger with you here, much as you need me.†
Book 15
- He gripped his own right arm and squeezed it, being numb where Teukros with a bowshot from the rampart had hit him while he fought for his own men, and he spoke out in prayer to Lord Apollo: "Hear me, O lord, somewhere in Lykian farmland or else in Troy: for you have power to listen the whole world round to a man hard pressed as I!†
Book 16
- The man who crossed the rampart of Akhaians first of all lies dead: Sarpedon.†
Book 16
- Once in the town, those who had fled like deer wiped off their sweat and drank their thirst away, leaning against the cool stone of the ramparts.†
Book 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(rampart) a defensive wall or barrier -- built for military defense
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)