All 7 Uses
boon
in
Medea, by Euripides - (translated by: E.P. Coleridge)
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- But on me hath fallen this unforeseen disaster, and sapped my life; ruined I am, and long to resign the boon of existence, kind friends, and die.†
boon = something that is of great benefit
- Wherefore this one boon and only this I wish to win from thee,-thy silence, if haply I can some way or means devise to avenge me on my husband for this cruel treatment, and on the man who gave to him his daughter, and on her who is his wife.†
- MEDEA I will begone; I ask thee not this boon to grant.†
- AEGEUS Lady, on many grounds I am most fain to grant thee this thy boon, first for the gods' sake, next for the children whom thou dost promise I shall beget; for in respect of this I am completely lost.†
- JASON I am come at thy bidding, for e'en though thy hate for me is bitter thou shalt not fail in this small boon, but I will hear what new request thou hast to make of me, lady.†
- MEDEA At least do thou bid thy wife ask her sire this boon, to remit the exile of the children from this land.†
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- high hope of ye that you would nurse me in my age and deck my corpse with loving hands, a boon we mortals covet; but now is my sweet fancy dead and gone; for I must lose you both and in bitterness and sorrow drag through life.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(boon) something that is of great benefit
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, in archaic literature, a boon may refer to a favor or request. It is also a rare spelling of a last name.