| 释义 |
silver-footed, a. poet.
[f. silver n. 17, after the Homeric ἀργυρόπεζα as an epithet of Thetis.]
Having silvery feet; white-footed. Often fig.
1620Middleton & Rowley World Tost at Tennis Induct. 34 By her side The silver-footed Thamesis doth slide. 1646G. Daniel Poems Wks. (Grosart) I. 94 Yet Silver-footed Peace may blesse our feilds. 1685Dryden Sylvæ II. 50 By silver footed Thetis thou wert won For fierce Achilles. 1718Pope Iliad xvi. 702 Who, chas'd for Murder thence, a Suppliant came To Peleus, and the silver-footed Dame. 1747Mallet Amyntor & Theodora Wks. 1759 I. 124 The silver-footed dews. 1818Keats Endym. iii. 51 The ministring stars..Waiting for silver-footed messages. 1870Bryant Iliad I. i. 30 The silver-footed Thetis has contrived To o'erpersuade thee. |