Glossary
drink life to the lees – drink to
the very last drop; here ‘live life to the fullest’
scudding – moving rapidly because
of the wind
Hyades – a group of stars in the
constellation Taurus often associated with rain
vext – (past tense of ‘vex’) upset
to rust unburnish’d – to let go
waste, without being used
three suns – three long years
Telemachus – son of Ulysses
smite – strike
furrow - made in the water by the ship
baths – outer ocean or river that
the Greeks believed to surround the flat earth
Happy Isles – a fortunate island
situated in the Atlantic Ocean, popularly known as Greek Paradise
Achilles – the greatest of Greek
warriors (as an infant his mother dipped into the river Styx, which made him
invulnerable everywhere but the feet by which she held him)
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