Both Uses of
calamity
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- what is there of inferior birth, That breathes or creeps upon the dust of earth; What wretched creature of what wretched kind, Than man more weak, calamitous, and blind?†
Book 17
- Calamitous by birth, They owe their life and nourishment to earth; Like yearly leaves, that now, with beauty crown'd, Smile on the sun; now, wither on the ground.†
Book 21 *
Definition:
a disastrous event; or the distress resulting from it