Both Uses of
iniquity
in
The Odyssey, by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
- Long ago when ye were children, ye marked not your fathers' telling, what manner of man was Odysseus among them, one that wrought no iniquity toward any man, nor spake aught unrighteous in the township, as is the wont of divine kings.†
Book 4 *
- So when they had avoided all the spears of the wooers, the steadfast goodly Odysseus began first to speak among them: 'Friends, now my word is that we too cast and hurl into the press of the wooers, that are mad to slay and strip us beyond the measure of their former iniquities.'†
Book 22iniquities = immoral or unjust acts
Definition:
immorality; or an immoral act