Both Uses of
relentless
in
The Aeneid
- If Fortune please, and so the gods ordain, That nothing should of ruin'd Troy remain, And you conspire with Fortune to be slain, The way to death is wide, th' approaches near: For soon relentless Pyrrhus will appear, Reeking with Priam's blood— the wretch who slew The son (inhuman) in the father's view, And then the sire himself to the dire altar drew.†
Book 2 *
- Thy Turnus broke All rules of war by one relentless stroke, When Pallas fell: so deems, nor deems alone My father's shadow, but my living son."†
Book 10
Definition:
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(relentless) to continue without stopping in an extreme manner -- often of something that is harsh or oppressive