Slain

He was slain in battle.

Oh, I am slain.

Many were slain.

Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain; thou gav'st me thine, not to give back again.

The dragon has been slain.

One prided himself on having slain a wolf, whilst another boasted that in piping he had formerly yielded but to Pan alone. This was the boast of Philetas.

Nor stays his conquering raid / till seven huge bodies on the ground lie slain, / the number of his vessels; then again / he seeks the crews, and gives a deer to each.

"O Thou, whose nod and awful bolts attest / o'er Gods and men thine everlasting reign, / wherein hath my AEneas so transgressed, / wherein his Trojans, thus to mourn their slain, / barred from the world, lest Italy they gain?"

Thrice had Achilles round the Trojan wall / dragged Hector; there the slayer sells the slain.

"But when Ulysses, fain / to weave new crimes, with Tydeus' impious son / dragged the Palladium from her sacred fane, / and, on the citadel the warders slain, / upon the virgin's image dared to lay / red hands of slaughter, and her wreaths profane, / hope ebbed and failed them from that fatal day, / the Danaans' strength grew weak, the goddess turned away. / No dubious signs Tritonia's wrath declared."