Akhos
idea · 2 works · 13 mentions · 21 anchored passages
akhos · grief · sorrow · anguish · great distress · grieve · trouble [akhos]
in the texts
Iliad
The concept of grief or anguish, named explicitly with the bracketed Greek term akhos.
how great and goodly a host of the Achaeans he has destroyed to my great grief [ akhos], in violation of the order [ kosmos] of things, while the Cyprian and Apollo are enjoying it all at their ease and setting this unrighteous madman on to keep on doing things that are not right [ themis].
Thereon Hades went to the house of Zeus on great Olympus, angry and full of pain [ akhos];
Patroklos was enraged with grief [ akhos] over by the death of his comrade, and sped through the front ranks as swiftly as a hawk that swoops down on a flock of daws or starlings.
Odyssey
The Greek concept of grief or distress, used by Alkinoos to name Odysseus's visible suffering during the bard's song.
He is evidently in great distress [ akhos], so let the bard leave off, that we may all enjoy ourselves, hosts and guest alike.
You will be sorry [ akhos] for it afterwards if you kill a bard who can sing both for gods and men as I can.
but I will not have him go near the suitors, for they are very insolent [ hubris], and are sure to ill-treat him in a way that would greatly grieve [ akhos] me;