All 14 Uses of
ruinous
in
The Odyssey by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
- The 'ruinous winds' drove Odysseus and his ships for ten days, and on the tenth they touched the land of the LotusEaters, whose flowery food causes sweet forgetfulness.†
Book Intr. *
- I would not that the threads perish to no avail, even this shroud for the hero Laertes, against the day when the ruinous doom shall bring him low, of death that lays men at their length.†
Book 2
- So that one night we rested, thinking hard things against each other, for Zeus was fashioning for us a ruinous doom.†
Book 3
- But lo you, death, which is common to all, the very gods cannot avert even from the man they love, when the ruinous doom shall bring him low of death that lays men at their length.'†
Book 3
- 'Thence for nine whole days was I borne by ruinous winds over the teeming deep; but on the tenth day we set foot on the land of the lotus-eaters, who eat a flowery food.†
Book 9
- Thereby no ship of men ever escapes that comes thither, but the planks of ships and the bodies of men confusedly are tossed by the waves of the sea and the storms of ruinous fire.†
Book 12
- Now the backstay fashioned of an oxhide had been flung thereon; therewith I lashed together both keel and mast, and sitting thereon I was borne by the ruinous winds.†
Book 12
- So I clung round the mast and was borne by the ruinous winds.†
Book 14
- In the morning I would fain be gone to the town to go a begging, that I be not ruinous to thyself and thy fellows.†
Book 15
- For thou dost not often visit the field and the herdsmen, but abidest in the town; so it seems has thy good pleasure been, to look on the ruinous throng of the wooers.'†
Book 16
- Or, if thou wilt, hold him here in the steading and take care of him, and raiment I will send hither, and all manner of food to eat, that he be not ruinous to thee and to thy fellows.†
Book 16
- I would not that the threads perish to no avail, even this shroud for the hero Laertes, against the day when the ruinous doom shall bring him low, of death that lays men at their length.†
Book 19
- The fair lady spoke of all that she had endured in the halls at the sight of the ruinous throng of wooers, who for her sake slew many cattle, kine and goodly sheep; and many a cask of wine was broached.†
Book 23
- I would not that the threads perish to no avail, even this shroud for the hero Laertes, against the day when the ruinous doom shall bring him low, of death that lays men at their length.†
Book 24
Definition:
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(ruinous) catastrophic or extremely harmful; or badly damaged or decayed (like ancient ruins)