All 5 Uses of
insolent
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Edward)
- The priest being refused, and insolently dismissed by Agamemnon, entreats for vengeance from his god, who inflicts a pestilence on the Greeks.†
Chpt 1.1 *insolently = with rude disrespect
- But this I say, and will make good my words,
This insolence may cost him soon his life.†Chpt 1.1insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
- But this I promise, and will make it good,
The time shall come, when for this insolence
A threefold compensation shall be thine;
Only be sway'd by me, and curb thy wrath.†Chpt 1.1
- They are detained by the management of Ulysses, who chastises the insolence of Thersites.†
Chpt 1.1
- Menoetius, Actor's son,
Yet surely lives; and 'mid his Myrmidons
Lives aged Peleus, son of AEacus:
Their deaths indeed might well demand our tears:
Or weep'st thou for the Greeks, who round their ships
By death their former insolence repay?†Chpt 2.16
Definition:
rudely disrespectful -- especially toward someone in authority