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That day you shall no more prevail on me than this dry wood shall flourish—driven though you are, and though a thousand men perish before the killer, Hektor.†
Book 1

perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
Meanwhile the soldiers held their hands to heaven, Trojans and Akhaians, in this prayer: "Father Zeus, almighty over Ida, may he who brought this trouble on both sides perish!†
Book 3
You should have perished there, brought down by that strong soldier, once my husband.†
Book 3 *

perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
For this I know well in my heart and soul: the day must come when holy Ilion is given to fire and sword, and Priam perishes, good lance though he was, with all his people.†
Book 4

perishes = dies or is destroyed
Aineias would have perished there but for the quickness of the daughter of Zeus, his mother, Aphrodite, she who bore him to shepherding Ankhises, and who now pillowed him softly in her two white arms and held a corner of her glimmering robe to screen him, so that no Danaan spear should stab and finish him.†
Book 5

perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
Ares bore it, when Otos and Ephialtes, Aloeus' giant sons, put him in chains: he lay for thirteen moons in a brazen jar, until that glutton of war might well have perished had Eeriboia, their stepmother, not told Hermes: Hermes broke him free more dead than alive, worn out by the iron chain.†
Book 5
Now Hera, seeing these Argives perish in the fight, appealed with indignation to Athena: "A dismal scene, this.†
Book 5

perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
Let them all without distinction perish, every last man of Ilion, without a tear, without a trace!†
Book 6
Honor—for in my heart and soul I know a day will come when ancient Ilion falls, when Priam and the folk of Priam perish.†
Book 6
Soon enough, old Nestor would have perished in that place, had not Diomedes of the great warcry seen Hektor coming.†
Book 8

perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
God of the wide sea, shaker of the islands, are you not moved to see Danaans perish who send so many and lovely gifts to you at Helike and Aigai?†
Book 8

perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
He took his stand, behind the shield of Telamonian Aias, and Aias would put up his shield a bit: beneath it the archer could take aim—and when his shot went home, his enemy perished on the spot, while he ducked back to Aias' flank the way a boy does to his mother, and with his shield Aias concealed him.†
Book 8

perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
You know the way a hunting dog will harry a wild boar or a lion after a chase, and try to nip him from behind, to fasten on flank or rump, alert for an opening as the quarry turns and turns: darting like that, Hektor harried the long-haired men of Akhaia, killing off stragglers one by one, and when the main mass had got through the stakes and ditch, many had perished at the Trojans' hands.†
Book 8
Let him be broken at the Argives' hands, give up his breath in his own land and perish!†
Book 8

perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
Terrible pressure is upon us, though; the issue teeters on a razor's edge for all Akhaians—whether we live or perish.†
Book 10
On foot Agastrophos went limping through the fight until he perished....Looking across at this, Hektor attacked the Akhaians with a yell while Trojan companies fell in behind.†
Book 11

perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
Ah, but I can prophesy his weeping after his people perish!†
Book 11

perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
But tell me this, Eurypylos, your grace, are the Akhaians holding Hektor still or will they perish, downed by his spear?†
Book 11
Only it must be somehow to the pleasure of arrogant Zeus, that here ingloriously far from Argos the Akhaians perish!†
Book 13
And the Lord Marshal Agamemnon said: "Since now they press the fight around the ships' sterns, neither wall nor moat made any difference, though painful labor built them, and Danaans dearly hoped they'd make a shield to save our ships and men— this must be somehow satisfactory to the high mind of Zeus, that far from Argos Akhaians perish here without a name.†
Book 14
Either we perish or else fight off this peril and are saved.†
Book 15
Apollo would not allow the son of Panthoos to perish in that melee.†
Book 15
Men with a sense of shame survive more often than they perish.†
Book 15
Or is this weej over the Argives, seeing how they perish at the long ships by their own bloody fault!†
Book 16
For he who perished here was the dear friend of a great prince, greatest by far of those who hold tihe bfeach and their tough men-at-arms.†
Book 17

perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
let strife and rancor perish from the lives of gods and men, with anger that envenoms even the wise and is sweeter than slow-dripping honey, clouding the hearts of men like smoke: just so the marshal of the army, Agamemnon, moved me to anger.†
Book 18

perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
My heart's desire had been that I alone should perish far from Argos here at Troy; that you should sail to Phthia, taking my son aboard your swift black ship at Skyros, to introduce him to his heritage, my wide lands, my servants, my great hall.†
Book 19
Men on both sides may perish, still they are near my heart.†
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
His fate is to escape, to ensure that the great line of Dardanos may not unseeded perish from the world.†
Book 20
Trojans, perish in this rout until you reach, and I behind you slaughtering reach, the town!†
Book 21
Now troops have perished for my foolish pride, I am ashamed to face townsmen and women.†
Book 22

perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
Soon Iris came on Thetis in a cave, surrounded by a company of Nereids lolling there, while she bewailed the fate of her magnificent son, now soon to perish on Troy's rich earth, far from his fatherland.†
Book 24

perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
Or can you be abandoning Ilion in fear, after he perished, that great one who never shirked a battle, your own princely son?†
Book 24

perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
We are told that even Niobe in her extremity took thought for bread—though all her brood had perished, her six young girls and six tall sons.†
Book 24

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(1) (perish)
to die -- especially in an unnatural way

or:

to be destroyed or cease to exist

You may encounter an informal expression, "Perish the thought." It means that the speaker hopes the thought will cease to exist and the thing it represents will never happen.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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