All 6 Uses
beguile
in
The Iliad
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- Aphrodite likes to beguile the women of Akhaia to elope with Trojans, whom she so adores: now, fondling some Akhaian girl, I fear, she scratched her slim white hand on a golden pin.†
Book 5 *
- BOOK FOURTEEN — Beguilement on Mount Ida†
Book 14
- And Lady Hera, deep in her beguilement, answered: "Lend me longing, lend me desire, by which you bring immortals low as you do mortal men!†
Book 14
- Hera beguiled him into making love.†
Book 14beguiled = deceived through charm or enchantment
- Ruinous Folly, eldest daughter of Zeus, beguiles us all.†
Book 19
- None of the gods of heaven is so to blame as my own mother, who beguiled me, lying, saying my end would come beneath Troy's wall from flashing arrows of Apollo.†
Book 21beguiled = deceived through charm or enchantment
Definitions:
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(1)
(beguile) to charm, enchant, or entertain someone; or to deceive -- especially through charm
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, in classic literature, beguile can mean to "pass time pleasantly."