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Definition
wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil
- Father Jove, of all gods you are the most malicious.Book 20 (52% in)
- Minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marvelled at him as he went by, and the suitors gathered round him with fair words in their mouths and malice in their hearts; but he avoided them, and went to sit with Mentor, Antiphus, and Halitherses, old friends of his father's house, and they made him tell them all that had happened to him.Book 17 (11% in)
- Then some malicious god conveyed Ulysses to the upland farm where his swineherd lives.Book 24 (28% in)
- Endnote 61: This is hidden malice, implying that the Phaeacian magnates were no better than they should be.Footnotes (33% in)
There are no more uses of "malicious" in The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Butler).
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