All 50 Uses of
bronze
in
The Iliad
- Then I shall be there to cross his bronze doorsill and take his knees.
Book 1 *bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- Bronze fills all your huts, bronze and the hottest girls—we hand them over to you, you first, when any stronghold falls.†
Book 2
- Bronze fills all your huts, bronze and the hottest girls—we hand them over to you, you first, when any stronghold falls.†
Book 2
- Let me rip with my bronze point the shirt that clings on Hektor and slash his ribs!†
Book 2
- As in dark forests, measureless along the crests of hills, a conflagration soars, and the bright bed of fire glows for miles, now fiery lights from this great host in bronze played on the earth and flashed high into heaven.†
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
- , with two spears capped in pointed bronze.†
Book 3
- She found her weaving in the women's hall a double violet stuff, whereon inwoven were many passages of arms by Trojan horsemen and Akhaians mailed in bronze— trials braved for her sake at the wargods hands.†
Book 3
- And one, Idaios, carrying golden goblets and a winebowl shining, reached the side of the aged king and called upon him: "Son of Laomedon, arise: the master soldiers of both armies, Trojan breakers of horses, Akhaians mailed in bronze, request that you be present in the plain for peace offerings and oaths.†
Book 3
- He drew the pitiless bronze knife-edge hard across the gullets of the sheep, and laid them quivering on the ground, their lives ebbing, lost to the whetted bronze.†
Book 3
- He drew the pitiless bronze knife-edge hard across the gullets of the sheep, and laid them quivering on the ground, their lives ebbing, lost to the whetted bronze.†
Book 3
- Next they took up two tokens in a bronze helm, shaking it to see which man would cast his weapon first.†
Book 3
- He slung a sword of bronze with silver-studded hilt by a baldric on his shoulder; over this a shield strap and the many-layered shield; then drew a helmet with a horsetail crest upon his head, upon his gallant brow, the tall plume like a wave-crest grimly tossing.†
Book 3
- Nothing brazen broke— no, but the point of bronze at impact bent in that hard armor.†
Book 3
- Second to make his cast, and rousing to it with his bronze-shod spear, the son of Atreus, Menelaos, prayed to Father Zeus: "O Zeus aloft, grant I shall make the man who wronged me first i pay for it now!†
Book 3
- He left aside his team, his chariot, a-gleam with bronze: his driver, Eurymedon, a son of Ptolemaios Peiraides, reined in the snorting horses; and Agamemnon gave him strict command to bring the war-car up when weariness should take him in the legs, after inspection of all his many marshaled troops.†
Book 4
- Lord Agamemnon, heartened at the sight, spoke to the captains warmly: "Aias and Aias, captains of Argos in your mail of bronze, I have no orders for you: there's no need to put you in a mood for war: it's clear you've passed your fighting spirit to your troops.†
Book 4
- But now you'd gladly see ten troops ahead of you moving up to attack with naked bronze!†
Book 4
- As he said this he bounded from his car in full armor, and the bronze about his chest rang as he hit the ground, a captain roused.†
Book 4
- When the long lines met at the point of contact, there was a shock of bull's hide, battering pikes, and weight of men in bronze.†
Book 4
- Seeing him tugging at the corpse, his flank exposed beside the shield as he bent over, Agenor with his spearshaft shod in bronze hit him, and he crumpled.†
Book 4
- In the lead, as he came on, he took the spear-thrust squarely in the chest beside the nipple on the right side; piercing him, the bronze point issued by the shoulder blade, and in the dust he reeled and fell.†
Book 4
- When hit, they are not made of iron or stone to make the cutting bronze rebound!†
Book 4
- Then Thoas the Aitolian lunged at Peiros, Hitting him with a spear above the nipple, so the bronze point stuck in his lung; and Thoas at close quarters, wrenching the heavy spear, pulled it out of his chest, then drew his sword and killed him with a stroke square in the belly.†
Book 4
- As for the two, they lay there in the dust stretched out near one another: captain of Thracians and captain of Epeians mailed in bronze, while others, many, fell in death around them.†
Book 4
- Then Diomedes wheeling in his turn let fly his bronze-shod spear.†
Book 5
- Biting cold bronze he fell into the dust.†
Book 5
- The winging arrow stuck, undeflected, spattering blood on bronze.†
Book 5
- If ever she should join the fight, then wound her with your keen bronze.†
Book 5
- Pitying the two men fallen, Menelaos came up, formidable in glittering bronze, with menacing spear—for Ares urged him on to see him conquered at Aineias' hands.†
Book 5
- Across the clashing line he came a-glitter with burning bronze, a terror to Danaans, making Sarpedon's heart lift up to see him, so that as Hektor passed he weakly said: "I beg you not to leave me lying here for Danaans to despoil.†
Book 5
- Hebe fitted upon her chariot, left and right, the brazen wheels with eight shinbones, or spokes, around the iron axle-tree: all gold her felloes are, unworn, for warped upon them are tires of bronze, a marvel; and the hubs are silver, turning smoothly on each side.†
Book 5
- Now Diomedes put his weight behind his own bronze-headed spear.†
Book 5
- It Was my speed that got me off, or I should still be there in pain among the dead, the foul dead—or undone by further strokes of cutting bronze.†
Book 5
- But Zeus had stolen Glaukos' wits away— the young man gave up golden gear for bronze, took nine bulls' worth for armor worth a hundred!†
Book 6
- Now Hektor dear to Zeus went in, his hand gripping a spear eleven forearms long, whose bronze head shone before him in the air as shone, around the neck, a golden ring.†
Book 6
- Hektor was her lord now, head to foot in bronze; and now she joined him.†
Book 6
- But the child squirmed round on the nurse's bosom and began to wail, terrified by his father's great war helm— the flashing bronze, the crest with horsehair plume tossed like a living thing at every nod.†
Book 6
- And here is what I say—Zeus be my witness— if with his whetted bronze he cuts me down, my armor he may take away and carry aboard the long decked ships; not so my body.†
Book 7
- Aias came nearer, carrying like a tower his body shield of seven oxhides sheathed in bronze—a work done for him by the leather-master Tykhios in Hyle: Tykhios made the glittering shield with seven skins of oxhide and an eighth of plated bronze.†
Book 7
- Aias came nearer, carrying like a tower his body shield of seven oxhides sheathed in bronze—a work done for him by the leather-master Tykhios in Hyle: Tykhios made the glittering shield with seven skins of oxhide and an eighth of plated bronze.†
Book 7
- Rifling his spear, he hurled it and hit Aias' wondrous shield square on the outer and eighth plate of bronze.†
Book 7
- He drew away and in one powerful hand picked from the plain a boulder lying there, black, rough and huge, and threw it, hitting Aias' gigantic sevenfold shield square on the boss with a great clang of bronze.†
Book 7
- To Agamemnon, as to Menelaos, he gave a thousand measures of the wine for trading, so the troops could barter for it, some with bronze and some with shining iron, others with hides and others still with oxen, some with slaves.†
Book 7
- Up to his car he backed his bronze-shod team of aerial runners, long manes blowing gold.†
Book 8
- The beast reared in agony, for the point entered his brain, and round and round he floundered, fixed by the bronze point, making havoc among the horses.†
Book 8
- He held his lance erect—eleven forearms long with bronze point shining in the air before him as shone, around the shank, a golden ring.†
Book 8
- If the immortals grant us the plundering of Priam's town, let him come forward when the spoils are shared and load his ship with bars of gold and bronze.†
Book 9
- If the immortals grant us the pillaging of Priam's town, you may come forward when the spoils are shared and load your ship with bars of gold and bronze.†
Book 9
- Rich possessions are there I left behind when I was mad enough to come here; now I take home gold and ruddy bronze, and women belted luxuriously, and hoary iron, all that came to me here.†
Book 9