Both Uses of
noisome
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Cowper)
- No famine knows that people, or disease Noisome, of all that elsewhere seize the race Of miserable man; but when old age Steals on the citizens, Apollo, arm'd With silver bow and bright Diana come, Whose gentle shafts dismiss them soon to rest.†
Book 15 *
- But here, for thy sake, have I now arrived, That I may look on thee, and from thy lips 40 Learn if my mother still reside at home, Or have become spouse of some other Chief, Leaving untenanted Ulysses' bed To be by noisome spiders webb'd around.†
Book 16
Definition:
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(noisome) causing or able to cause nausea -- especially from odor
or:
harmful