All 3 Uses of
iniquity
in
The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers)
- We avow ourselves to be better men by far than our fathers were: we did take the seat of Thebes the seven gated, though we led a scantier host against a stronger wall, because we followed the omens of the gods and the salvation of Zeus; but they perished by their own iniquities.†
Book 4iniquities = immoral or unjust acts
- With thee are we all at variance, because thou didst beget that reckless maiden and baleful, whose thought is ever of iniquitous deeds.†
Book 5 *
- How wondrously art thou favouring men of violence, even the Trojans, whose might is ever iniquitous, nor can they have their fill of the din of equal war.†
Book 13
Definition:
immorality; or an immoral act