All 7 Uses of
inure
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- "My birth I boast (the blue-eyed virgin cries) From great Anchialus, renown'd and wise; Mentes my name; I rule the Taphian race, Whose bounds the deep circumfluent waves embrace; A duteous people, and industrious isle, To naval arts inured, and stormy toil.†
Book 1
- Whate'er the gods shall destine me to bear; In the black ocean or the watery war, 'tis mine to master with a constant mind; Inured to perils, to the worst resign'd, By seas, by wars, so many dangers run; Still I can suffer; their high will he done!"†
Book 5
- Inured to cares, to death in all its forms; Outcast I rove, familiar with the storms.†
Book 6 *
- Such was my boast while vigour crown'd my days, Now care surrounds me, and my force decays; Inured a melancholy part to bear In scenes of death, by tempest and by war Yet thus by woes impair'd, no more I waive To prove the hero—slander stings the brave."†
Book 8
- " 'O son of woe,' the pensive shade rejoin'd; 'O most inured to grief of all mankind!†
Book 11
- Short was that doubt; to quell his rage inured, The hero stood self-conquer'd, and endured.†
Book 17
- …no longer toss'd; Restless his body rolls, to rage resign'd As one who long with pale-eyed famine pined, The savoury cates on glowing embers cast Incessant turns, impatient for repast Ulysses so, from side to side-devolved, In self-debate the suitor's doom resolved When in the form of mortal nymph array'd, From heaven descends the Jove-born martial maid; And'hovering o'er his head in view confess'd, The goddess thus her favourite care address'd: "O thou, of mortals most inured to woes!†
Book 20
Definition:
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(inure) desensitize or harden (cause to stop being troubled by something bad due to prior exposure to it)