All 18 Uses of
fraudulent
in
The Aeneid
- Then dire debate and impious war shall cease, And the stern age be soften'd into peace: Then banish'd Faith shall once again return, And Vestal fires in hallow'd temples burn; And Remus with Quirinus shall sustain The righteous laws, and fraud and force restrain.†
Book 1
- Thou know'st, my son, how Jove's revengeful wife, By force and fraud, attempts thy brother's life; And often hast thou mourn'd with me his pains.†
Book 1 *
- But Capys, and the rest of sounder mind, The fatal present to the flames designed, Or to the wat'ry deep; at least to bore The hollow sides, and hidden frauds explore.†
Book 2
- Somewhat is sure design'd, by fraud or force: Trust not their presents, nor admit the horse.'†
Book 2
- Then Hector's faith was manifestly clear'd, And Grecian frauds in open light appear'd.†
Book 2
- Then change we shields, and their devices bear: Let fraud supply the want of force in war.†
Book 2
- Then Venus, who her hidden fraud descried, Which would the scepter of the world misguide To Libyan shores, thus artfully replied: "Who, but a fool, would wars with Juno choose, And such alliance and such gifts refuse, If Fortune with our joint desires comply?†
Book 4
- She was the first to find the secret fraud, Before the fatal news was blaz'd abroad.†
Book 4
- Just in the gate and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses and unfolds her snakes.†
Book 6
- To whom the Sibyl thus: "Compose thy mind; Nor frauds are here contriv'd, nor force design'd.†
Book 6
- While Turnus urges thus his enterprise, The Stygian Fury to the Trojans flies; New frauds invents, and takes a steepy stand, Which overlooks the vale with wide command; Where fair Ascanius and his youthful train, With horns and hounds, a hunting match ordain, And pitch their toils around the shady plain.†
Book 7
- Then Juno thus: "The grateful work is done, The seeds of discord sow'd, the war begun; Frauds, fears, and fury have possess'd the state, And fix'd the causes of a lasting hate.†
Book 7
- Allur'd with hope of plunder, and intent By force to rob, by fraud to circumvent, The brutal Cacus, as by chance they stray'd, Four oxen thence, and four fair kine convey'd; And, lest the printed footsteps might be seen, He dragg'd 'em backwards to his rocky den.†
Book 8
- Alcides found the fraud; with rage he shook, And toss'd about his head his knotted oak.†
Book 8
- Before the town the Tuscan army lies, To win by famine, or by fraud surprise.†
Book 8
- You shall not find the sons of Atreus here, Nor need the frauds of sly Ulysses fear.†
Book 9
- But yet is just and lawful for your line To drive their fields, and force with fraud to join; Realms, not your own, among your clans divide, And from the bridegroom tear the promis'd bride; Petition, while you public arms prepare; Pretend a peace, and yet provoke a war!†
Book 10
- Inclos'd with hills, a winding valley lies, By nature form'd for fraud, and fitted for surprise.†
Book 11
Definition:
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(fraudulent) dishonesty -- usually for financial gain or ego