And Agamemnon made the well-greaved Achaians sit down.
So saying, he caught Paris by his horse-hair crest, and dragged him towards the well-greaved Achaians, and the embroidered strap of the helmet went nigh to strangle him.
If the "well-greaved Greeks" had anything like this in their lives they would have approached the task with appropriate songs and ceremonial dances.
So we can imagine the well-greaved Greeks brushing aside the low daphne bushes, and crushing under foot the trailing arches of the ground maidenhair fern.
Then he stood up and spake a word among the Argives: "Son of Atreus and ye other well-greaved Achaians, for these rewards we summon two men of the best to lift up their hands to box amain.
He spake, and the well-greaved Achaians rejoiced that the great-hearted son of Peleus had made renouncement of his wrath.
So come, abide ye all, ye well-greaved Achaians, even where ye are, until we have taken the great city of Priam.
So when they had armed themselves on either side in the throng, they strode between Trojans and Achaians, fierce of aspect, and wonder came on them that beheld, both on the Trojans tamers of horses and on the well-greaved Achaians.
Thereat Menelaos cast it with a swing toward the well-greaved Achaians, and his trusty comrades took it up; and himself sprang back again eager to slay him with spear of bronze.
Alas, surely even the other well-greaved Achaians store wrath against me in their hearts, like Achilles, and have no desire to fight by the rearmost ships.
Next how he came to Telepylus of the Laestrygonians, who brake his ships and slew all his goodly-greaved companions, and Odysseus only escaped with his black ship.
It was I that led him up out of Scyros in my good hollow ship, in the wake of the goodly-greaved Achaeans.
Then I numbered my goodly-greaved company in two bands, and appointed a leader for each, and I myself took the command of the one part, and godlike Eurylochus of the other.
He went on his way to the assembly-place to join the goodly-greaved Achaeans.
But when the sun was wending to the time of the loosing of cattle, then at last the Cicones drave in the Achaeans and overcame them, and six of my goodly-greaved company perished from each ship: but the remnant of us escaped death and destiny.
So these twain stood bandying hard words; but the goodly-greaved Achaeans sprang up with a wondrous din, and twofold counsels found favour among them.
Achaians brazen-greaved All, like Achilles, have deserted me Resentful, and decline their fleet's defence.
Nought I fear Fatal elsewhere, although Troy's haughty sons Have pass'd the barrier with so fierce a throng Tumultuous; for the Grecians brazen-greaved 65 Will check them there.
He ended, and the Grecians brazen-greaved Rejoiced that Peleus' mighty son had cast 85 His wrath aside.
First hegreaved his legs with greaves of good make, and fitted with ancle-clasps of silver; after this he donned the cuirass of the son of Aeacus, richly inlaid and studded.
Thus he spoke; but the well-greaved Greeks rejoiced, the magnanimous son of Peleus renouncing his wrath.
But come, ye well-greaved Greeks, remain all here, until we shall take the great city of Priam.
Ye gods, surely the other well-greaved Greeks, as well as Achilles, store up wrath against me in their minds; nor are they willing to fight at the sterns of the ships.
But on the other side the well-greaved Greeks carried Tlepolemus from the fight; and divine Ulysses, possessing an enduring heart, perceived them, and his soul was stirred within him.
But they built up the tomb in haste, and watches sat around on every side, lest the well-greaved Greeks should make an attack too soon.
But when at length they were wearying the well-greaved Greeks, then mighty Telamonian Ajax addressed him: [Footnote 767: See Kennedy.
It is not a subject for indignation, that Trojans and well-greaved Greeks endure hardships for a long time on account of such a woman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greaved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
