| 单词 | homeric epithet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHomeric epithet Homeric epithet n. an epithet or description used by Homer, or resembling one used by him, esp. one which is much repeated or has become a usual or stock description.See, for example, rosy-fingered adj., wine-dark adj. at wine n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1789 R. P. Jodrell Illustr. Euripides (new ed.) 103 He might..have remarked, that Euripides had borrowed the Homerick epithet, κυάνεος, and applied to the eyebrows of Pluto, what the old Bard had assigned to those of Jupiter. 1793 G. Steevens Note on Pericles i. iv, in Plays of Shakspeare XIII. 430 Hollow, applied to ships, is a Homeric epithet. 1858 Harvard Mag. Dec. 401 That Homeric epithet of our race, ‘word-dividing men’, is by no means inappropriate. 1869 Fortn. Rev. 1 Aug. 185 He was always in difficulty as to some person's name or other, and he had regular descriptions which recurred, like Homeric epithets. 1913 J. Palmer Comedy of Manners vi. 218 The Homeric epithet for Vanbrugh seems as clearly to have fitted him as the Homeric epithets for his predecessors. It was..Brother Van. 1926 Eng. Jrnl. 15 148 The Homeric epithets, those exquisite phrases that crystallise the epic spirit: ‘Great Hector of the waving plume’, ‘Diomedes good at the war-cry’, ‘the rosy-fingered dawn’, [etc.]. 1993 New Yorker 20 Sept. 51/1 His success had dissolved the Homeric epithet: he was no longer the black director or the black writer George Wolfe but simply the director and writer George Wolfe. < as lemmas |
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