Both Uses of
penury
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Of all the ills unhappy mortals know, A life of wanderings is the greatest woe; On all their weary ways wait care and pain, And pine and penury, a meagre train.†
Book 15 *
- The fool of fate, thy manufacture, man, With penury, contempt, repulse, and care, The galling load of life is doom'd to bear.†
Book 20
Definition:
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(penury) a state of extreme poverty or destitution