All 22 Uses of
disdain
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Gods! how my soul is moved with just disdain!†
Book 2 *
- This heard the raging ruler of the main; His spear, indignant for such high disdain, He launched; dividing with his forky mace The aerial summit from the marble base: The rock rush'd seaward, with impetuous roar Ingulf'd, and to the abyss the boaster bore.†
Book 4
- Howe'er the noble, suffering mind may grieve Its load of anguish, and disdain to live, Necessity demands our daily bread; Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.†
Book 7
- Meanwhile the goddess in disdain bestows The mast and acorn, brutal food! and strows The fruits and cornel, as their feast, around; Now prone and grovelling on unsavoury ground.†
Book 10
- Ajax keeps at a sullen distance, and disdains to answer him.†
Book 11
- Alone, apart, in discontented mood, A gloomy shade the sullen Ajax stood; For ever sad, with proud disdain he pined, And the lost arms for ever stung his mind; Though to the contest Thetis gave the laws, And Pallas, by the Trojans, judged the cause.†
Book 11
- While yet I speak, the shade disdains to stay, In silence turns, and sullen stalks away.†
Book 11
- But works of peace my soul disdain'd to bear, The rural labour, or domestic care.†
Book 14
- "Whether (he cries) they measure back the flood, Or still in ambush thirst in vain for blood, Escaped my care: where lawless suitors sway, Thy mandate borne my soul disdain'd to stay.†
Book 16
- (Antinous cries with insolent disdain): Portions like mine if every suitor gave, Our walls this twelvemonth should not see the slave.†
Book 17
- Then, turning short, disdain'd a further stay; But to the palace measured back the way.†
Book 18
- Then, while the streaming sorrow dims her eyes, Thus, with a transient smile, the matron cries: "Eurynome! to go where riot reigns I feel an impulse, though my soul disdains; To my loved son the snares of death to show, And in the traitor friend, unmask the foe; Who, smooth of tongue, in purpose insincere, Hides fraud in smiles, while death is ambush'd there."†
Book 18
- Scornful they heard: Melantho, fair and young, (Melantho, from the loins of Dolius sprung, Who with the queen her years an infant led, With the soft fondness of a daughter bred,) Chiefly derides: regardless of the cares Her queen endures, polluted joys she shares Nocturnal with Eurymachus: with eyes That speak disdain, the wanton thus replies: "Oh! whither wanders thy distemper'd brain, Thou bold intruder on a princely train?†
Book 18
- The delicacy of your courtly train To wash a wretched wanderer would disdain; But if, in tract of long experience tried, And sad similitude of woes allied, Some wretch reluctant views aerial light, To her mean hand assign the friendly rite.†
Book 19
- Three porkers for the feast, all brawny-chined, He brought; the choicest of the tusky-kind; In lodgments first secure his care he viewed, Then to the king this friendly speech renew'd: "Now say sincere, my guest! the suitor-train Still treat thy worth with lordly dull disdain; Or speaks their deed a bounteous mind humane?"†
Book 20
- Rejoinder to the churl the king disdain'd, But shook his head, and rising wrath restrain'd.†
Book 20
- Heedless he heard them: but disdain'd reply; The bow perusing with exactest eye.†
Book 21
- Ill I deserved these haughty peers' disdain; Now let them comfort their dejected train, In sweet repast their present hour employ, Nor wait till evening for the genial joy: Then to the lute's soft voice prolong the night; Music, the banquet's most refined delight."†
Book 21
- Ulysses burn'd With high disdain, and sternly thus return'd: "All, all the treasure that enrich'd our throne Before your rapines, join'd with all your own, If offer'd, vainly should for mercy call; 'tis you that offer, and I scorn them all; Your blood is my demand, your lives the prize, Till pale as yonder wretch each suitor lies.†
Book 22
- Eumaeus scoffing then with keen disdain: "There pass thy pleasing night, O gentle swain!†
Book 22
- Pierced through the breast the rude Ctesippus bled, And thus Philaetius gloried o'er the dead: "There end thy pompous vaunts and high disdain; O sharp in scandal, voluble and vain!†
Book 22
- To whom with warmth: "My soul a lie disdains; Ulysses lives, thy own Ulysses reigns: That stranger, patient of the suitors' wrongs, And the rude license of ungovern'd tongues!†
Book 23
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy