Both Uses of
fallacy
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Each vagrant traveller, that touches here, Deludes with fallacies the royal ear, To dear remembrance makes his image rise, And calls the springing sorrows from her eyes.†
Book 14 *
- (Thus good Eumaeus with a sigh rejoin'd,) For real sufferings since I grieve sincere, Check not with fallacies the springing tear: Nor turn the passion into groundless joy For him whom Heaven has destined to destroy.†
Book 14
Definition:
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(fallacy) a mistaken belief; or a common form of incorrect reasoning