Examples of using "Pompeux" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom is pompous.
There's a big old name,
This is a fancy way of saying that we study the anatomy --
Laocoon, Neptune's priest, by lot ordained, / a stately bull before the altar slew.
- Tom is vain.
- Tom is pompous.
'On with the image to its home', they cried, / 'and pray the Goddess to avert our woe'.
There, under gorgeous curtains, at the head / sate Dido, throned upon a golden bed.
This said, / I ceased, and Helenus with slaughtered kine / implores the god, and from his sacred head / unbinds the wreath, and leads me to the shrine, / awed by Apollo's power, and chants the doom divine:
There, torn from many a burning temple, lay / Troy's wealth; the tripods of the Gods were there, / piled in huge heaps, and raiment snatched away, / and golden bowls, and dames with streaming hair / and tender boys stand round, and tremble with despair.
A grove stood in the city, rich in shade, / where storm-tost Tyrians, past the perilous brine, / dug from the ground, by royal Juno's aid, / a war-steed's head, to far-off days a sign / that wealth and prowess should adorn the line.
Rich presents, too, he sends for, saved of old / from Troy, a veil, whose saffron edges shone / fringed with acanthus, glorious to behold, / a broidered mantle, stiff with figures wrought in gold. / Fair Helen's ornaments, from Argos brought, / the gift of Leda, when the Trojan shore / and lawless nuptials o'er the waves she sought.