Both Uses of
feud
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- What honour, and what love, shall I obtain, If I compose those fatal feuds again; Once more their minds in mutual ties engage, And, what my youth has owed, repay their age!†
Book 14 *feuds = bitter, long-standing fights
- I deem'd not Greece so dreadful, while engaged In mutual feuds her king and hero raged; Then, while we hoped our armies might prevail We boldly camp'd beside a thousand sail.†
Book 18
Definition:
bitter hostile argument between two parties -- typically long-standing between families or tribes with occasional incidents of violence
Sometimes the term blood feud is used to reference a feud between families.