All 22 Uses of
brazen
in
The Odyssey
- Eurymachus—the rest of you fine, brazen suitors—I have done with appeals to you about these matters.
p. 100.0 *brazen = bold and improper
- "Oh how much you need Odysseus, gone so long—
how he'd lay hands on all these brazen suitors!†p. 85.9
- No lingering now—he heard the goddess' voice—
but back he went to his house with aching heart
and there at the palace found the brazen suitors
skinning goats in the courtyard, singeing pigs for roasting.†p. 102.8
- If only the gods would arm me in such power
I'd take revenge on the lawless, brazen suitors
riding roughshod over me, plotting reckless outrage.†p. 114.1
- Don't rove from home too long,
too far, leaving your own holdings unprotected—
crowds in your palace so brazen
they'll carve up all your wealth, devour it all,
and then your journey here will come to nothing.†p. 117.6
- First Poseidon drove him onto the cliffs of Gyrae,
looming cliffs, then saved him from the breakers—
he'd have escaped his doom, too, despite Athena's hate,
if he hadn't flung that brazen boast, the mad blind fool.†p. 140.5
- Zeus kill that brazen boy before he hits his prime!†
p. 145.8
- The bright-eyed goddess Athena led the way:
"Royal son of Laertes, Odysseus, old campaigner,
think how to lay your hands on all those brazen suitors,
lording it over your house now, three whole years,
courting your noble wife, offering gifts to win her.†p. 298.9
- No, at their royal ease they devour all his goods,
those brazen rascals never spare a scrap!†p. 304.6
- Hovering over him, eyes ablaze, Athena said,
"It's wrong, Telemachus, wrong to rove so far,
so long from home, leaving your own holdings
unprotected—crowds in your palace so brazen
they'll carve up all your wealth, devour it all,
and then your journey here will come to nothing.†p. 319.9
- You'll waste time, roaming around our holdings,
probing the fieldhands man by man, while the suitors
sit at ease in our house, devouring all our goods—
those brazen rascals never spare a scrap!†p. 348.5
- If the brazen suitors cut me down in the palace—
off guard—and carve apart my father's whole estate,
I'd rather you yourself, or one of his friends here,
keep those gifts and get some pleasure from them.†p. 357.0
- What a brazen, shameless beggar!†
p. 368.9
- But he took up his post by the flaring braziers,
tending the fires closely, looking after them all,
though the heart inside him stirred with other things,
ranging ahead, now, to all that must be done ...
But Athena had no mind to let the brazen suitors
hold back now from their heart-rending insults—
she meant to make the anguish cut still deeper
into the core of Laertes' son Odysseus.†p. 387.1
- So he warned, and alert Penelope heard him,
wheeled on the maid and tongue-lashed her smartly:
"Make no mistake, you brazen, shameless bitch,
none of your ugly work escapes me either—
you will pay for it with your life, you will!†p. 393.5
- Or else, I warn you—and I mean business too—
if a god beats down these brazen suitors at my hands,
I will not spare you—my old nurse that you are—
when I kill the other women in my house.†p. 406.2
- If a god beats down these brazen suitors at your hands,
I'll report in full on the women in your house:
who are disloyal to you, who are guiltless.†p. 406.4
- But Athena had no mind to let the brazen suitors
hold back now from their heart-rending insults—
she meant to make the anguish cut still deeper
into the core of Laertes' son Odysseus.†p. 419.9
- Setting shaft on the handgrip, drawing the notch
and bowstring back, back ...right from his stool,
just as he sat but aiming straight and true, he let fly—
and never missing an ax from the first ax-handle
clean on through to the last and out
the shaft with its weighted brazen head shot free!†p. 438.3
- Odysseus, master of tactics, answered briskly,
"I and the prince will keep these brazen suitors
crammed in the hall, for all their battle-fury.†p. 444.9
- But the story can't be true, not as you tell it,
no, it must be a god who's killed our brazen friends—
up in arms at their outrage, heartbreaking crimes.†p. 457.6
- But as for the flocks those brazen suitors plundered,
much I'll recoup myself, making many raids;
the rest our fellow-Ithacans will supply
till all my folds are full of sheep again.†p. 467.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(brazen) bold and unrestrained by what others consider proper
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, brazen can reference something made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness). It can also reference an especially loud or harsh sound.