All 4 Uses of
guile
in
The Aeneid
- The guileful god about the hero long, With children's play, and false embraces, hung; Then sought the queen: she took him to her arms With greedy pleasure, and devour'd his charms.†
Book 1
- But truly tell, was it for force or guile, Or some religious end, you rais'd the pile?'†
Book 2
- The guileful phantom now forsook the shroud, And flew sublime, and vanish'd in a cloud.†
Book 10
- His guileful father, sent a nightly spy,
Book 12 *guileful = cunning (shrewd, clever)
Definition:
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(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful