All 4 Uses of
hobbled
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- For prayers are as daughters to great Jove; halt, wrinkled, with eyes askance, they follow in the footsteps of sin, who, being fierce and fleet of foot, leaves them far behind him, and ever baneful to mankind outstrips them even to the ends of the world; but nevertheless the prayers come hobbling and healing after.†
Book 9
- He hobbled their feet with hobbles of gold which none could either unloose or break, so that they might stay there in that place until their lord should return.†
Book 13 *
- He hobbled their feet with hobbles of gold which none could either unloose or break, so that they might stay there in that place until their lord should return.†
Book 13hobbles = walks with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment) OR hinders (made the action or progress of something difficult)
- On this the mighty monster hobbled off from his anvil, his thin legs plying lustily under him.†
Book 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(hobbled as in: she hobbled up the hill) walked with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment)
or:
hindered (made the action or progress of something difficult) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Hobble originally referred to tying together two legs of horses or cattle, so they would not wander far away.