All 26 Uses
prudent
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
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- Magnificence of old (the prince replied) Beneath our roof with virtue could reside; Unblamed abundance crowned the royal board, What time this dome revered her prudent lord; Who now (so Heaven decrees) is doom'd to mourn, Bitter constraint, erroneous and forlorn.†
Book 1
- At last AEgyptius spoke; AEgyptius, by his age and sorrow broke; A length of days his soul with prudence crown'd, A length of days had bent him to the ground.†
Book 2prudence = good sense and caution
- tell me, faithful guide (The youth with prudent modesty replied), How shall I meet, or how accost the sage, Unskill'd in speech, nor yet mature of age?†
Book 3
- Far o'er the rest thy mighty father shined, In wit, in prudence, and in force of mind.†
Book 3prudence = good sense and caution
- But when (by wisdom won) proud Ilion burn'd, And in their slips the conquering Greeks return'd, 'Twas God's high will the victors to divide, And turn the event, confounding human pride; Some be destroy'd, some scatter'd as the dust (Not all were prudent, and not all were just).†
Book 3
- The prudent youth replied: "O thou the grace And lasting glory of the Grecian race!†
Book 3
- What words are these, and what imprudence thine?†
Book 3imprudence = the quality of lacking good sense and cautionstandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudence means not and reverses the meaning of prudence. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
- Thus check'd, replied Ulysses' prudent heir: "Mentor, no more—the mournful thought forbear; For he no more must draw his country's breath, Already snatch'd by fate, and the black doom of death!†
Book 3
- Expert of arms, and prudent in debate; The gifts of Heaven to guard thy hoary state.†
Book 4
- Selected from my stores, of matchless price, An urn shall recompense your prudent choice; By Vulcan's art, the verge with gold enchased.†
Book 4 *
- for this (the prudent man replies) Against Ulysses shall thy anger rise?†
Book 5
- As when the polypus, from forth his cave Torn with full force, reluctant beats the wave, His ragged claws are stuck with stones and sands; So the rough rock had shagg'd Ulysses hands, And now had perish'd, whelm'd beneath the main, The unhappy man; e'en fate had been in vain; But all-subduing Pallas lent her power, And prudence saved him in the needful hour.†
Book 5prudence = good sense and caution
- His sage advice the listening king obeys, He stretch'd his hand the prudent chief to raise, And from his seat Laodamas removed (The monarch's offspring, and his best-beloved); There next his side the godlike hero sate; With stars of silver shone the bed of state.†
Book 7
- Let no such thought (with modest grace rejoin'd The prudent Greek) possess the royal mind.†
Book 7
- Eurylochus alone of all the band, Suspecting fraud, more prudently remain'd.†
Book 10prudently = with good sense and caution
- let prudence be thy guide, And guard thy various passage through the tide.†
Book 12prudence = good sense and caution
- To whom the youth, for prudence famed, replied: "O monarch, care of heaven!†
Book 15
- Far hence those fears (Eurymachus replied,) O prudent princess!†
Book 16
- Just thy advice (the prudent chief rejoin'd), And such as suits the dictate of my mind.†
Book 17
- Amidst her maids thus spoke the prudent queen, Then bade Eumaeus call the pilgrim in.†
Book 17
- Whoe'er this guest (the prudent queen replies) His every step and every thought is wise.†
Book 17
- In happier hour (pleased Euryclea cries), Tutour'd by early woes, grow early wise; Inspect with sharpen'd sight, and frugal care, Your patrimonial wealth, a prudent heir.†
Book 19
- Such servant as your humble choice requires, To light received the lord of my desires, New from the birth; and with a mother's hand His tender bloom to manly growth sustain'd: Of matchless prudence, and a duteous mind; Though now to life's extremest verge declined, Of strength superior to the toil design'd—Rise, Euryclea!†
Book 19prudence = good sense and caution
- Not fiercer woes thy fortitude could foil, When the brave partners of thy ten years' toil Dire Polypheme devour'd; I then was freed By patient prudence from the death decreed.†
Book 20
- The prudent queen the lofty stair ascends: At distance due a virgin-train attends; A brazen key she held, the handle turn'd, With steel and polish'd elephant adorn'd: Swift to the inmost room she bent her way, Where, safe reposed, the royal treasures lay: There shone high heap'd the labour'd brass and ore, And there the bow which great Ulysses bore; And there the quiver, where now guiltless slept Those winged deaths that many a matron wept.†
Book 21
- Ulysses absent, our ambitious aim With rival loves pursued his royal dame; Her coy reserve, and prudence mix'd with pride, Our common suit nor granted, nor denied; But close with inward hate our deaths design'd; Versed in all arts of wily womankind.†
Book 24prudence = good sense and caution
Definitions:
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(1)
(prudent) sensible and careful
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Prudence is also a female name.