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Definition
extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)
- He is gone, lost to sight and hearsay, but for me hath he left anguish and lamentation; nor henceforth is it for him alone that I mourn and weep, since the gods have wrought for me other sore distress.Book 1 (56% in)
- Then joy and anguish came on her in one moment, and both her eyes filled up with tears, and the voice of her utterance was stayed, and touching the chin of Odysseus she spake to him, saying: 'Yea verily, thou art Odysseus, my dear child, and I knew thee not before, till I had handled all the body of my lord.'Book 19 (78% in)
There are no more uses of "anguish" in The Odyssey by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang).
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