well-greaved

Weeping, the well-greaved Achaeans turned-off with headlong speed to the shore of the much-resounding sea, since they were being massacred at the hands of the relentless man Telephus.

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Yes, I thought; it was as Achilles 'heir that he must have seen himself; inheritor of the ancient laws, which say a man lives by his pride and shall defend it to the death: Harmodios son of Proxenos son of Harmodios, and so on back to some well-greaved Achaian at Troy.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

The well-greaved Greek, you already know, is deep in the confidences of Minerva; the hairy Trojan, on the contrary, is protected by the Lady Venus.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

"The well-greaved grillus" bounds twenty feet at a spring, and having thighs as thick as

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

The legs of Achilles and of Thersites would share the same fate in them, and both would in modern London be as well entitled to the epithet of "well-trousered," as the former alone was to that of 'well-greaved' before Troy.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

And, further, we have identified those "shining savages," the well-greaved Achæans, with the armored warriors of the West who fought and fell with the Libyan host but a few years, probably, before the Children of Israel went forth out of the House of Bondage.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

We do know, however, that they were clad in brass, like the heroes of Homer; for in the catalogue of booty seized by the victorious Egyptians, we find a list of three thousand one hundred and seventy-five swords, poignards, cuirasses, and even greaves – the distinctive armor of "the well-greaved Achæans."

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

Whether the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" are the work of one poet or of a cycle of poets, doubtless the rhetorical peculiarities of the Homeric epics, such as the recurrent phrase and the conventional epithet (the rosy-fingered dawn, the well-greaved Greeks, the swift-footed Achilles, the much-enduring Odysseus, etc.) are due to this communal or associative character of ancient heroic song.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

He spake, and the well-greaved Achaians rejoiced that the great-hearted son of Peleus had made renouncement of his wrath.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

And the bones they took and laid in a golden urn, shrouding them in soft purple robes, and straightway laid the urn in a hollow grave and piled thereon great close-set stones, and heaped with speed a barrow, while watchers were set everywhere around, lest the well-greaved Achaians should make onset before the time.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882