All 3 Uses of
sulk
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- If all of us who are with the Danaans were to drive the Trojans back and keep Jove from helping them, he would have to sit there sulking alone on Ida.†
Book 8 *sulking = overly unhappy and unsociable
- While he was thus in two minds, the Trojans came up to him with Hector at their head; he therefore drew back and left the body, turning about like some bearded lion who is being chased by dogs and men from a stockyard with spears and hue and cry, whereon he is daunted and slinks sulkily off—even so did Menelaus son of Atreus turn and leave the body of Patroclus.†
Book 17sulkily = in an excessively unhappy and unsociable manner
- In his lust of meat he makes straight at them but in vain, for darts from strong hands assail him, and burning brands which daunt him for all his hunger, so in the morning he slinks sulkily away—even so did Menelaus sorely against his will leave Patroclus, in great fear lest the Achaeans should be driven back in rout and let him fall into the hands of the foe.†
Book 17
Definition:
to be overly unhappy and unsociable -- often due to disappointment or a sense of not getting what was deserved