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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Spears

    object · 4 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages

    spear · spears · a spear · doughty spear · hunting spears

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    Spear2 mentions

    Odyssey (Greek) · Orations (Greek)

    he had his spear in his hand, and he was not alone, for his two dogs went with him.
    chapter 20

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    The bronze-shod spears used by Odysseus's party and the suitors in close combat after the arrows run out.

    He chose four shields, eight spears, and four brass helmets with horse-hair plumes.
    chapter 22
    the spear caught him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, so that he fell heavily to the ground and struck the earth with his forehead.
    chapter 22
    he had his spear in his hand, and he was not alone, for his two dogs went with him.
    chapter 20

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    The bodily mark said to identify the legendary Sown Men of Thebes.

    But while to those once called the Sown Men at Thebes there was, they say, a token of their race—a spear, I think, upon the body—and whoever did not have this token did not seem to be one of the Sown Men, do you not think that there is a token in the soul of the offspring of Zeus, by which they will be made manifest to those able to recognize whether they are born of him or not?
    oration 4

    AnabasisClassical · Greek

    Weapons whose position marks the transition from marching to attack.

    The orders had been to keep their spears on the right shoulder until a signal should be given with the trumpet;
    chapter 6
    But when the phalanx of the hoplites kept moving on to meet them, marching rapidly, and at the same time the trumpet sounded, and they struck up the paean and after that raised the battle-cry, and at the same moment couched their spears, then the enemy no longer awaited the attack, but took to flight.
    de haemorrhoidibus

    CyropaediaClassical · Greek

    Weapons central to Persian training and to Cyrus' hunting achievements.

    All these lessons Cyrus eagerly learned.
    chapter 1
    Besides this, they learn to shoot and to throw the spear.
    chapter 1
    Thereupon Cyrus took some of the meat and proceeded to distribute it among his grandfather’s servants, saying to them in turn:
    chapter 1