All 11 Uses
beguile
in
The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers)
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- To him lord Agamemnon made answer and said: "Not in this wise, strong as thou art, O godlike Achilles, beguile thou me by craft; thou shalt not outwit me nor persuade me.†
Book 1
- How Zeus beguiled Agamemnon by a dream; and of the assembly of the Achaians and their marching forth to battle.†
Book 2 *beguiled = deceived through charm or enchantment
- So said she, and stirred Helen's soul within her breast; and when now she marked the fair neck and lovely breast and sparkling eyes of the goddess, she marvelled straightway and spake a word and called upon her name: "Strange queen, why art thou desirous now to beguile me?†
Book 3
- Is it not enough that thou beguilest feeble women?†
Book 5standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou beguilest" in older English, today we say "You beguile."
- To him declare ye everything even as I charge you, openly, that all the Achaians likewise may have indignation, if haply he hopeth to beguile yet some other Danaan, for that he is ever clothed in shamelessness.†
Book 9
- Neither will I devise counsel with him nor any enterprise, for utterly he hath deceived me and done wickedly; but never again shall he beguile me with fair speech—let this suffice him.†
Book 9
- How Sleep and Hera beguiled Zeus to slumber on the heights of Ida, and Poseidon spurred on the Achaians to resist Hector, and how Hector was wounded.†
Book 14beguiled = deceived through charm or enchantment
- Then she took thought, the ox-eyed lady Hera, how she might beguile the mind of aegis-bearing Zeus.†
Book 14
- And he stood near him, and spake winged words: "Eagerly now, Poseidon, do thou aid the Danaans, and give them glory for a little space, while yet Zeus sleepeth, for over him have I shed soft slumber, and Hera hath beguiled him."†
Book 14beguiled = deceived through charm or enchantment
- None other of the inhabitants of Heaven is chargeable so much, but only my dear mother, who beguiled me with false words, saying that under the wall of the mail-clad men of Troy I must die by the swift arrows of Apollo.†
Book 21
- And while he chased him over the wheat-bearing plain, edging him toward the deep-eddying river Skamandros, as he ran but a little in front of him (for by wile Apollo beguiled him that he kept ever hoping to overtake him in the race), meantime the other Trojans in common rout came gladly unto their fastness, and the city was filled with the throng of them.†
Book 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(beguile) to charm, enchant, or entertain someone; or to deceive -- especially through charm
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, in classic literature, beguile can mean to "pass time pleasantly."