All 5 Uses of
prudent
in
The Iliad
- 9 Helen does not mention Nestor, and this may indicate that Homer has enlarged his role in the saga, both to provide a foil to Agamemnon's imprudence and to widen the scope of his tale with Nestor's recollections of long-ago cattle raids in southwest Peloponnesus.†
Book Intr.
- These weighty and conflicting demands cannot be prudentially resolved because honor is fundamentally tied to a hero's identity, as is made explicit in a speech Sarpedon delivers in Book XII.†
Book Intr.
- In a similar way Virgil imitated Homer's typical epithets, but prudently selected the widely applicable modifier "pater" for his main character, "father Aineias."†
Book Intr.
- You conceived a daughter with no prudence, a destroyer, given to violence.†
Book 5
- You must think hard and fast, your grace; there is new danger; we need care and prudence.
Book 24 *prudence = good sense and caution
Definition:
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(prudent) sensible and careful