All 4 Uses of
rue
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- Find me a ship, therefore, with a crew of twenty men, and I will lie in wait for him in the straits between Ithaca and Samos; he will then rue the day that he set out to try and get news of his father.†
Book 4 *rue the day = feel sadness and regret (about the day something happened)
- He married her after having killed his father, but the gods proclaimed the whole story to the world; whereon he remained king of Thebes, in great grief for the spite the gods had borne him; but Epicaste went to the house of the mighty jailor Hades, having hanged herself for grief, and the avenging spirits haunted him as for an outraged mother—to his ruing bitterly thereafter.†
Book 11ruing = feeling sadness and regret
- Could I but stand by his side, in the light of day, with the same strength that I had when I killed the bravest of our foes upon the plain of Troy—could I but be as I then was and go even for a short time to my father's house, any one who tried to do him violence or supersede him would soon rue it.'†
Book 11
- If we face such numbers as this, you may have bitter cause to rue your coming, and your revenge.†
Book 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(rue) to feel sadness and regret
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Rue is also French for street, but often seen in English when referencing a specific street, much as people speaking French might refer to Main Street. Occasionally, you may also see rue referencing a type of plant.