All 3 Uses of
perfidy
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Some kings with arbitrary rage devour, Or in their tyrant-minions vest the power; Ulysses let no partial favours fall, The people's parent, he protected all; But absent now, perfidious and ingrate!†
Book 4 *
- He suffers who gives surety for the unjust: But say, if that lewd scandal of the sky, To liberty restored, perfidious fly: Say, wilt thou bear the mulct?†
Book 8
- He instant cries, "The mulct I bear, if Mars perfidious flies."†
Book 8
Definition:
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(perfidy) an act of deliberate betrayal; or such behavior