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feeling self-importance
- From this spot then, with a voice that could be heard afar, he shouted to the Danaans, saying, "Argives, shame on you cowardly creatures, brave in semblance only; where are now our vaunts that we should prove victorious—the vaunts we made so vaingloriously in Lemnos, when we ate the flesh of horned cattle and filled our mixing-bowls to the brim?Book 8 (42% in)
There are no more uses of "vainglorious" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler).
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