All 6 Uses of
ignoble
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Whose early years for future worth engage, No vulgar manhood, no ignoble age.†
Book 3 *
- Behold Ulysses! no ignoble name, Earth sounds my wisdom and high heaven my fame.†
Book 9
- 'twas on no coward, no ignoble slave, Thou meditatest thy meal in yonder cave; But one, the vengeance fated from above Doom'd to inflict; the instrument of Jove.†
Book 9
- Soon as the suitors from the banquet rose, Minerva prompts the man of mighty woes To tempt their bounties with a suppliant's art, And learn the generous from the ignoble heart (Not but his soul, resentful as humane, Dooms to full vengeance all the offending train); With speaking eyes, and voice of plaintive sound, Humble he moves, imploring all around.†
Book 17
- A vagabond! for him the great destroy, In vile ignoble jars, the feast of joy.†
Book 18
- First bleeds Antinous: thick the shafts resound, And heaps on heaps the wretches strew the ground; This way, and that, we turn, we fly, we fall; Some god assisted, and unmann'd us all; Ignoble cries precede the dying groans; And battered brains and blood besmear the stones.†
Book 24
Definition:
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(ignoble) dishonorable or lacking nobility