Both Uses of
vagabond
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- Perhaps he is a vagabond sailor whom she has taken from some foreign vessel, for we have no neighbours; or some god has at last come down from heaven in answer to her prayers, and she is going to live with him all the rest of her life.†
Book 6 *
- Then would one turn towards his neighbour saying, "This is some tricky old bow-fancier; either he has got one like it at home, or he wants to make one, in such workmanlike style does the old vagabond handle it."†
Book 21
Definition:
a person who wanders from town to town with no fixed home or job