All 10 Uses of
seethe
in
The Odyssey
- He raged on, seething against
the great Odysseus till he reached his native land.†p. 78.2 *
- But now that I'm full-grown
and can hear the truth from others, absorb it too—
now, yes, that the anger seethes inside me ...
I'll stop at nothing to hurl destruction at your heads,
whether I go to Pylos or sit tight here at home.†p. 103.3
- That night we barely slept,
seething with hard feelings against our own comrades,
for Zeus Was brooding over us, poised to seal our doom ...
At dawn, half of us hauled our vessels down to sea,
we stowed our plunder, our sashed and lovely women.†p. 112.3
- Poseidon heard that frantic vaunt
and the god grasped his trident in both his massive hands
and struck the Gyraean headland, hacked the rock in two,
and the giant stump stood fast but the jagged spur
where Ajax perched at first, the raving madman—
toppling into the sea, it plunged him down, down
in the vast, seething depths.†p. 140.7
- She stood in awe of her Father's brother, lord of the sea
who still seethed on, still churning with rage against
the great Odysseus till he reached his native land.†p. 178.9
- Now wailing in fear, we rowed on up those straits,
Scylla to starboard, dreaded Charybdis off to port,
her horrible whirlpool gulping the sea-surge down, down
but when she spewed it up—like a cauldron over a raging fire—
all her churning depths would seethe and heave—exploding spray
showering down to splatter the peaks of both crags at once!†p. 278.8
- They slipped the cable free of the drilled stone post
and soon as they swung back and the blades tossed up the spray
an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest,
soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself ...
And the ship like a four-horse team careering down the plain,
all breaking as one with the whiplash cracking smartly,
leaping with hoofs high to run the course in no time—
so the stern hove high and plunged with the seething rollers
crashing dark in her wake as on she surged, unwavering,
never flagging, no, not even a darting hawk,
the quickest thing on wings, could keep her pace
as on she ran, cutting the swells at top speed,
bearing†p. 289.4
- That made Eurymachus' fury seethe and burst—
he gave the beggar a dark look and let fly, "You,
you odious—I'll make you pay for your ugly rant!†p. 388.5
- On that note,
grabbing an oxhoof out of a basket where it lay,
with a brawny hand he flung it straight at the king—
but Odysseus ducked his head a little, dodging the blow,
and seething just as the oxhoof hit the solid wall
he clenched his teeth in a wry sardonic grin.†p. 420.4
- But the battle-master kept on glaring, seething.†
p. 441.6
Definition:
to be filled with intense but unexpressed emotion, especially anger; or to move in a restless, agitated way