All 24 Uses
cunning
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
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- But the heavenly beings were disquieted throughout the house of Jove, till the cunning workman Vulcan began to try and pacify his mother Juno.†
Book 1cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- But first he summoned a meeting of the elders at the ship of Nestor king of Pylos, and when they were assembled he laid a cunning counsel before them.†
Book 2
- With these words he moved the hearts of the multitude, so many of them as knew not the cunning counsel of Agamemnon.†
Book 2 *
- He was born in rugged Ithaca, and excels in all manner of stratagems and subtle cunning.†
Book 3
- It went right through this and through the cuirass of cunning workmanship; it also pierced the belt beneath it, which he wore next his skin to keep out darts or arrows; it was this that served him in the best stead, nevertheless the arrow went through it and grazed the top of the skin, so that blood began flowing from the wound.†
Book 4
- Near him also tarried cunning Ulysses, with his sturdy Cephallenians round him; they had not yet heard the battle-cry, for the ranks of Trojans and Achaeans had only just begun to move, so they were standing still, waiting for some other columns of the Achaeans to attack the Trojans and begin the fighting.†
Book 4
- When he saw this Agamemnon rebuked them and said, "Son of Peteos, and you other, steeped in cunning, heart of guile, why stand you here cowering and waiting on others?†
Book 4
- Meriones then killed Phereclus the son of Tecton, who was the son of Hermon, a man whose hand was skilled in all manner of cunning workmanship, for Pallas Minerva had dearly loved him.†
Book 5
- None shall overcome me, neither by force nor cunning, for I was born and bred in Salamis, and can hold my own in all things.†
Book 7
- The terrible spear went through his gleaming shield, and pressed onward through his cuirass of cunning workmanship; it pierced the shirt against his side, but he swerved and thus saved his life.†
Book 7
- When they reached the ships and tents of the Myrmidons, they found Achilles playing on a lyre, fair, of cunning workmanship, and its cross-bar was of silver.†
Book 9
- She went, therefore, to the room which her son Vulcan had made her, and the doors of which he had cunningly fastened by means of a secret key so that no other god could open them.†
Book 14cunningly = in a manner that is clever and typically that includes tricking others
- "I see, Juno," said he, "you mischief-making trickster, that your cunning has stayed Hector from fighting and has caused the rout of his host.†
Book 15cunning = good at achieving goals through cleverness and deception
- Tell him everything; as for me, I will go to the cunning workman Vulcan on high Olympus, and ask him to provide my son with a suit of splendid armour.†
Book 18
- They were finished all but the ears of cunning workmanship which yet remained to be fixed to them: these he was now fixing, and he was hammering at the rivets.†
Book 18
- He made the shield in five thicknesses, and with many a wonder did his cunning hand enrich it.†
Book 18
- Juno, Pallas Minerva, earth-encircling Neptune, Mercury bringer of good luck and excellent in all cunning—all these joined the host that came from the ships; with them also came Vulcan in all his glory, limping, but yet with his thin legs plying lustily under him.†
Book 20
- The eels and fishes that go darting about everywhere in the water, these, too, were sorely harassed by the flames that cunning Vulcan had kindled, and the river himself was scalded, so that he spoke saying, "Vulcan, there is no god can hold his own against you.†
Book 21
- He could flow no longer but stayed his stream, so afflicted was he by the blasts of fire which cunning Vulcan had raised.†
Book 21
- Thus did Minerva inveigle him by her cunning, and when the two were now close to one another great Hector was first to speak.†
Book 22
- He lifted him from the ground as he spoke, but Ulysses did not forget his cunning.†
Book 23
- It would hold six measures, and far exceeded all others in the whole world for beauty; it was the work of cunning artificers in Sidon, and had been brought into port by Phoenicians from beyond the sea, who had made a present of it to Thoas.†
Book 23
- Forthwith uprose fleet Ajax son of Oileus, with cunning Ulysses, and Nestor's son Antilochus, the fastest runner among all the youth of his time.†
Book 23
- Then King Priam spoke to them saying, "Bring wood, O Trojans, to the city, and fear no cunning ambush of the Argives, for Achilles when he dismissed me from the ships gave me his word that they should not attack us until the morning of the twelfth day."†
Book 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(cunning as in: a cunning thief) being good at achieving goals through cleverness -- and typically through deception as well (tricking others)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) At one time, cunning was also used as a synonym for cute.