All 8 Uses
scanty
in
The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers)
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- Shame is this even for them that come after to hear; how so goodly and great a folk of the Achaians thus vainly warred a bootless war, and fought scantier enemies, and no end thereof is yet seen.†
Book 2
- Bandy-legged was he, and lame of one foot, and his two shoulders rounded, arched down upon his chest; and over them his head was warped, and a scanty stubble sprouted on it.†
Book 2
- Howbeit he was a weakling, and a scanty host followed him.†
Book 2 *
- 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 4
- Therefore they called him Simoeisios, but he repaid not his dear parents the recompense of his nurture; scanty was his span of life by reason of the spear of great-hearted Aias that laid him low.†
Book 4
- But even so they could not put the Argives to rout, but they held their ground, as an honest woman that laboureth with her hands holds the balance, and raises the weight and the wool together, balancing them, that she may win scant wages for her children; so evenly was strained their war and battle, till the moment when Zeus gave the greater renown to Hector, son of Priam, who was the first to leap within the wall of the Achaians.†
Book 12
- Other men have I seen that trust in their own might and power and valour, and in their host, even though they have scant folk to lead.†
Book 17
- Quickly have men surfeit of battle, of that wherein the sword streweth most straw yet is the harvest scantiest, [i.†
Book 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)