All 3 Uses of
tyro
in
The Odyssey
- So long as she persists in tormenting us,
quick to exploit the gifts Athena gave her—
a skilled hand for elegant work, a fine mind
and subtle wiles too—we've never heard the like,
not even in old stories sung of all Achaea's
well-coifed queens who graced the years gone by:
Mycenae crowned with garlands, Tyro and Alcmena ...
Not one could equal Penelope for intrigue
but in this case she intrigued beyond all limits.†p. 97.3 *
- Tyro, born of kings,
who said her father was that great lord Salmoneus,
said that she was the wife of Cretheus, Aeolus' son.†p. 257.2
- And after Tyro I saw Asopus' daughter Antiope,
proud she'd spent a night in the arms of Zeus himself
and borne the god twin sons, Amphion and Zethus,
the first to build the footings of seven-gated Thebes,
her bastions too, for lacking ramparts none could live
in a place so vast, so open—strong as both men were.†p. 257.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(tyro) someone new to a field or activity
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus