All 3 Uses of
ravage
in
The Odyssey
- Isn't it quite enough that you, my mother's suitors,
have ravaged it all, my very best, these many years,
while I was still a boy?†p. 103.2 *ravaged = destroyed or damaged
- And he sang how troops of Achaeans broke from cover,
streaming out of the horse's hollow flanks to plunder Troy—
he sang how left and right they ravaged the steep city,
sang how Odysseus marched right up to Deiphobus' house
like the god of war on attack with diehard Menelaus.†p. 208.2
- "Ah my queen," the man of craft assured her,
"noble wife of Laertes' son, Odysseus,
ravage no more your lovely face with tears
or consume your heart with grieving for your husband.†p. 399.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(ravage) to destroy or damage; or damaging effects
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, ravage can reference pillaging or plundering as is done by an invading army that takes things of value and destroys what is left.