Both Uses of
agony
in
The Odyssey, by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
- And looking into the swift ship to find my men, even then I marked their feet and hands as they were lifted on high, and they cried aloud in their agony, and called me by my name for that last time of all.†
Book 12 *agony = intense suffering
- And in his agony he smote the ground with his brow, and spurning with both his feet he overthrew the high seat, and the mist of death was shed upon his eyes.†
Book 22
Definition:
intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain