Homeric

Homeric englannista suomeksi

1. homeerinen, Homeroksen

1. homeerinen

Homeric englanniksi

1. Resembling or relating to the epic poetry of Homer.

2. (quote-book)&93; can extol him for little more than the ſkill with which he has, by making his hero both a traveller and a warrior, united the beauties of the ''(w)'' and the ''Odyſſey'' in one compoſition: yet his judgment was perhaps ſometimes overborne, by his avarice of the ''Homeric'' treaſures; and, for fear of ſuffering a ſparkling ornament to be loſt, he has inſerted it where it cannot ſhine with its original ſplendor.

3. (quote-book)|title=The Poetical Works of John Milton. With Notes of Various Authors; and with some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty’s State-paper Office. ... In Four Volumes|edition=5th|location=London|publisher=(publishers)|Rivingtons ''et al.''|year=1852|volume=III|page=xv|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nz4-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15|oclc=768086093|passage=In the beginning of the (smallcaps) the poet &91;(w)&93; introduces an ''Homerick'' cluster of similes; which seems to mark an intention of bestowing more poetical decoration on the conclusion of the Poem, than on the preceding parts of it.

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5. Of or pertaining to Greece during the Age, as described in Homer's works.

6. Fit to be immortalized in poetry by Homer; epic, heroic.

7. (quote-book) by (w)|date=16 March 1857|year_published=1981|page=195|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=46pRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA195|isbn=978-0-300-02743-3|passage=At home he &91;(w)&93; looks young & rompish at the meeting, at Hunts meeting he looked old & ungainly, but his power & eloquence as a speaker were homeric.

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