All 8 Uses of
guile
in
The Iliad
- You, too, Odysseus, hero of battle guile and greed!†
Book 4
- Lykoorgos had killed him, but by guile and not by force at all:
Book 7 *guile = cunning intelligence and deceit
- Leaving them there, he hit Hippasides Kharops, a brother of the rich man, Sokos— and Sokos gallantly ran up to shield him, taking a stand before the attacker, saying: "Odysseus, great in all men's eyes, unwearied master of guile and toil, today the sons of Hippasos will be your claim to glory: either you kill and strip such men as these or die, hit by my spear.†
Book 11
- The Lady Hera answered him in guile: "I go my way to the bourne of Earth, to see Okeanos, from whom the gods arose, and Mother Tethys.†
Book 14
- To this the Lady Hera in her guile replied: .†
Book 14
- But in her guile the Lady Hera said: 'You may be wrong, unable to seal your word with truth hereafter.†
Book 19
- This way, by guile, Athena led him on.†
Book 22
- In second place Antilokhos Nestorides drove in, by guile, not speed, outrunning Menelaos, who finished, even so, close on his heels: close as a chariot wheel to a horse that pulls his master at a dead run on the plain: tips of his tail hairs whisk at the wheel rim as he runs just ahead, with no expanse between, and all the plain beyond to cover.†
Book 23
Definition:
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(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful