All 4 Uses of
ignominious
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- But Heaven forsakes not thee: o'er yonder sands Soon shall thou view the scattered Trojan bands Fly diverse; while proud kings, and chiefs renown'd, Driven heaps on heaps, with clouds involved around Of rolling dust, their winged wheels employ To hide their ignominious heads in Troy.†
Book 14ignominious = deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- this ignominious date,(271) And make my future life the sport of fate.†
Book 21 *
- What sloth has seized us, when the fields around Ring with conflicting powers, and heaven returns the sound: Shall, ignominious, we with shame retire, No deed perform'd, to our Olympian sire?†
Book 21
- There sleep at last o'ercomes the hero's eyes; While foul in dust the unhonour'd carcase lies, But not deserted by the pitying skies: For Phoebus watch'd it with superior care, Preserved from gaping wounds and tainting air; And, ignominious as it swept the field, Spread o'er the sacred corse his golden shield.†
Book 24
Definition:
deserving or bringing disgrace or shame -- typically in reference to behavior or character