Priam

How To Use Priam In A Sentence

• So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: ‘Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
• Terebinthinam Cypriam habeant familiarem, ad quantitatem deglutiant nucis parvae, tribus horis ante prandium vel coenam, ter singulis septimanis prout expedire videbitur; nam praeterquam quod alvum mollem efficit, obstructiones aperit, ventriculum purgat, urinam provocat hepar mundificat. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Primum eorum qui propriam potentiam in patria sua amplificare cupiunt; quod genus vulgare est et degener. Paris as It Was and as It Is
• Priam his father has failed to move him with his chiliastic visions of his own terrible end, so Hecuba takes up the thread.
• Yea, she soon shall destroy gold-wealthy Priamos’ town, and Trojans many and Argives doom to death, whomso she will.
• Indè iui in Chaldaeam quæ est regnum magnum, et transiui iuxta turrim Babel: Haec regio suam linguam propriam habet, et ibi sunt homines formosi, et foeminæ turpes: et homines illius regionis vadunt compti crinibus, et ornati, vt hîc mulieres, et portant super capita sua fasciola aurea cum gemmis, et margaritis; mulieres verò solum vnam vilem camisiam attingentem vsque ad genua, habentem manicas longas et largas, quæ vsque ad terram protenduntur: Et vadunt discalceatæ portantes Serablans vsque ad terram. The Journal of Friar Odoric
• In his aspect there was a certain dryness, and, altogether, his vivacity, his ceaselessness, and a kind of equability of tone in his voice, reminded me of what Homer says concerning the old men around Priam, above the gate of Troy, how they "chirped like cicalas on a summer day. Adventures Among Books
• Polyxena meets death with exultation (_Tro_. 945, 1152-9): even the little Astyanax is infected with Stoic passion for suicide (1090): nec gradu segni puer ad alta pergit moenia. ut summa stetit pro turre, vultus huc et huc acres tulit intrepidus animo .... non flet e turba omnium qui fletur; ac, dum verba fatidici et preces concipit Vlixes vatis et saevos ciet ad sacra superos, sponte desiluit sua in media Priami regna. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
• 'Priam's lamentation, — — lamentations of Hecuba, &c.' ■ paraph rafe on Horace, The Works of the English Poets
• Butterflies are also well represented in the area and include many restricted species such as purple brown eye Chaetocneme porphyropis, Australian hedge blue Udara tenella and Cairns birdwing Ornithoptera priamus euphorion (Australia's largest butterfly). Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia