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Definition
uneasy, impatient, and difficult to control
- A man chafes at having to stay away from his wife even for a single month, when he is on shipboard, at the mercy of wind and sea, but it is now nine long years that we have been kept here; I cannot, therefore, blame the Achaeans if they turn restive; still we shall be shamed if we go home empty after so long a stay—therefore, my friends, be patient yet a little longer that we may learn whether the prophesyings of Calchas were false or true.Book 2 (33% in)
There are no more uses of "restive" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler).
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