All 4 Uses of
odious
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Then thus the god: "O restless fate of pride, That strives to learn what heaven resolves to hide; Vain is the search, presumptuous and abhorr'd, Anxious to thee, and odious to thy lord.†
Book 1odious = extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
- Left to Atrides, (victor in the strife,) An odious conquest and a captive wife, Hence let me sail; and if thy Paris bear My absence ill, let Venus ease his care.†
Book 3
- Of all the gods who tread the spangled skies, Thou most unjust, most odious in our eyes!†
Book 5 *
- Fate wills not this; nor thus can Jove resign The future father of the Dardan line:(266) The first great ancestor obtain'd his grace, And still his love descends on all the race: For Priam now, and Priam's faithless kind, At length are odious to the all-seeing mind; On great AEneas shall devolve the reign, And sons succeeding sons the lasting line sustain.†
Book 20