All 15 Uses of
inure
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Cowper)
- Then ate the Hero toil-inured, and drank, 220 And to his herald thus Alcinoues spake.†
Book 7 *
- There, wild goats breed numberless, by no foot Of man molested; never huntsman there, Inured to winter's cold and hunger, roams The dreary woods, or mountain-tops sublime; No fleecy flocks dwell there, nor plough is known, But the unseeded and unfurrow'd soil, 140 Year after year a wilderness by man Untrodden, food for blatant goats supplies.†
Book 9
- Ulysses, since beneath my brazen dome Sublime thou hast arrived, like woes, I trust, Thou shalt not in thy voyage hence sustain By tempests tost, though much to woe inured.†
Book 13
- Then felt Ulysses, Hero toil-inured, Transport unutterable, seeing plain Once more his native isle.†
Book 13
- 180 Him answer'd, then, the Hero toil-inured.†
Book 14
- 410 To whom Ulysses, toil-inured.†
Book 15
- Him answer'd then Ulysses toil-inured.†
Book 16
- To whom Ulysses, Hero toil-inured.†
Book 16
- Then thus divine Ulysses toil-inured.†
Book 16
- 670 Then thus Ulysses, Hero toil-inured.†
Book 17
- 110 Then doubtful stood Ulysses toil-inured, Whether to strike him lifeless to the earth At once, or fell him with a managed blow.†
Book 18
- She ceased; then brave Ulysses toil-inured Rejoiced that, soothing them, she sought to draw 340 From each some gift, although on other views, And more important far, himself intent.†
Book 18
- She said; then smiled the Hero toil-inured, And in wing'd accents thus spake to his son.†
Book 23
- No sooner then the Hero toil-inured 280 Saw him age-worn and wretched, than he paused Beneath a lofty pear-tree's shade to weep.†
Book 24
- The Hero toil-inured Drew to his bosom close his fainting sire, Who, breath recov'ring, and his scatter'd pow'rs Of intellect, at length thus spake aloud.†
Book 24
Definition:
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(inure) desensitize or harden (cause to stop being troubled by something bad due to prior exposure to it)