All 7 Uses of
fraught
in
The Odyssey
- Flocks of birds go fluttering under the sun's rays,
not all are fraught with meaning.†p. 99.2
- Come,
let me tell you about the voyage fraught with hardship
Zeus inflicted on me, homeward bound from Troy ...
The wind drove me out of Ilium on to Ismarus,
the Cicones' stronghold.†p. 212.8 *
- Now then,
no sooner had Queen Persephone driven off
the ghosts of lovely women, scattering left and right,
than forward marched the shade of Atreus' son Agamemnon,
fraught with grief and flanked by all his comrades,
troops of his men-at-arms who died beside him,
who met their fate in lord Aegisthus' halls.†p. 262.1
- Amphinomus made his way back through the hall,
his heart sick with anguish, shaking his head,
fraught with grave forebodings ...
but not even so could he escape his fate.†p. 380.9
- The dreams that pass through the gates of polished horn
are fraught with truth, for the dreamer who can see them.†p. 408.6
- You in our house, weeping over my journey home,
fraught with storms and torment, true, and I,
pinned down in pain by Zeus and other gods,
for all my desire, blocked from reaching home.†p. 466.9
- They had grouped around Achilles' ghost, and now
the shade of Atreus' son Agamemnon marched toward them—
fraught with grief and flanked by all his comrades,
troops of his men-at-arms who died beside him,
who met their fate in lord Aegisthus' halls.†p. 469.2
Definition:
full of negative things; or marked by or causing distress