All 26 Uses of
endure
in
The Odyssey
- the famous bard sang on, and they sat in silence, listening
as he performed The Achaeans' Journey Home from Troy:
all the blows Athena doomed them to endure.p. 88.3endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- But break off this song—
the unendurable song that always rends the heart inside me ...
the unforgettable grief, it wounds me most of all!†p. 88.8unendurable = not capable of being suffered through (or put up with)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unendurable means not and reverses the meaning of endurable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- such living hell we endured in distant Troy—
p. 110.8endured = suffered through (or to put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- So I rule all this wealth with no great joy.
You must have heard my story from your fathers,
whoever they are—what hardships I endured,
how I lost this handsome palace built for the ages,
filled to its depths with hoards of gorgeous things.
Well, would to god I'd stayed right here in my own house
with a third of all that wealth and they were still alive,
all who died…p. 127.5
- Long-enduring Odysseus
p. 157.9enduring = suffering through (or putting up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- And if a god will wreck me yet again on the wine-dark sea,
I can bear that too, with a spirit tempered to endure.
Much have I suffered, labored long and hard by now
in the waves and wars.p. 159.5endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- A fine litter of dead leaves had drifted in,
enough to cover two men over, even three,
in the wildest kind of winter known to man.
Long-enduring great Odysseus, overjoyed at the sight,
bedded down in the midst and heaped the leaves around him.p. 167.7enduring = suffering through (or putting up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- long-enduring great Odysseus
p. 190.1
- …was one bellwether ram, the prize of all the flock,
and clutching him by his back, tucked up under
his shaggy belly, there I hung, face upward,
both hands locked in his marvelous deep fleece,
clinging for dear life, my spirit steeled, enduring ….p. 225.3
- how could any man in his right mind endure
the taste of food and drink before he'd freed
his comrades-in-arms and looked them in the eyes?
If you, you really want me to eat and drink,
set them free, all my beloved comrades—
let me feast my eyes.'
So I demanded.p. 242.4endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- Well I know what pains you bore on the swarming sea,
what punishment you endured from hostile men on land.p. 244.8endured = suffered through (or to put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- You have told your story with all a singer's skill,
the miseries you endured, your great Achaeans too.
But come now, tell me...p. 261.5
- We know all the pains that the Greeks and Trojans once endured
on the spreading plain of Troy when the gods willed it so—p. 277.3
- the trials you must suffer in your palace . . .
Endure them all. You must. You have no choice.p. 296.5endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- the long-enduring Odysseus stepped in—
p. 341.4enduring = suffering through (or putting up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- the long-enduring, great Odysseus
p. 344.6
- If they abuse me in the palace, steel yourself,
no matter what outrage I must suffer, even
if they drag me through our house by the heels
and throw me out or pelt me with things they hurl—
you just look on, endure it.p. 347.4endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- But of strong, enduring Odysseus, dead or alive,
he's heard no news, he said, from any man on earth.p. 358.1 *enduring = suffering through (or putting up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- It was Argos, long-enduring Odysseus' dog
p. 363.8
- But that's the way of the world, when one has been
so far from home, so long away as I, roving over
many cities of men, enduring many hardships.p. 396.1
- offends our guest beyond endurance
p. 401.1endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- So he forced his spirit into submission,
the rage in his breast reined back—unswerving,
all endurance.p. 411.3
- Odysseus, long-enduring, broke into a smile
and turned to his son with pointed, winging words:
"Leave your mother here in the hall to test me
as she will."p. 459.2enduring = suffering through (or putting up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- And great Odysseus told his wife of all the pains
he had dealt out to other men and all the hardships
he'd endured himself—...p. 465.7endured = suffered through (or to put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- Long-enduring Odysseus
p. 475.7enduring = suffering through (or putting up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- the long-enduring great Odysseus
p. 485.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(2)
(endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist