All 8 Uses
guile
in
The Odyssey - translated by: Fitzgerald
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- When you have done all this, or seen it done, it will be time to ponder concerning these contenders in your house —how you should kill them, outright or by guile.†
Chpt 1
- O goddess, what guile is hidden here?†
Chpt 5
- But this you ask about is quickly told: in mid-ocean lies Ogygia, the island haunt of Kalypso, Atlas' guileful daughter, a lovely goddess and a dangerous one.†
Chpt 7guileful = full of cunning (shrewdness and cleverness, and perhaps deceit)
- Men hold me formidable for guile in peace and war: this fame has gone abroad to the sky's rim.†
Chpt 9
- She answered briskly: "Whoever gets around you must be sharp and guileful as a snake; even a god might bow to you in ways of dissimulation.†
Chpt 13guileful = full of cunning (shrewdness and cleverness, and perhaps deceit)
- Then said that sly and guileful man, Odysseus:
Chpt 14 *guileful = cunning (shrewd, clever) and deceitful
- With guile Odysseus drew away, then said: "A pity that you have more looks than heart.†
Chpt 17
- Nobody, only guile, got you out of that cave alive.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)