All 3 Uses of
dissemble
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- In this dissembled form, she hastes to bring The unwelcome message to the Phrygian king.†
Book 2 *
- Hear this, remember, and our fury dread, Nor pull the unwilling vengeance on thy head; Lest arts and blandishments successless prove, Thy soft deceits, and well-dissembled love.†
Book 15
- Boreas, enamour'd of the sprightly train, Conceal'd his godhead in a flowing mane, With voice dissembled to his loves he neigh'd, And coursed the dappled beauties o'er the mead: Hence sprung twelve others of unrivall'd kind, Swift as their mother mares, and father wind.†
Book 20
Definition:
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(dissemble) hide or disguise the truth without outright lying