All 4 Uses of
guile
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Cary
- ...the wealth, for which thou fearedst not in guile to take...
Canto 1.12-22 *guile = cunning and deceit
- "— "It was the friar Gomita," he rejoin'd, "He of Gallura, vessel of all guile, Who had his master's enemies in hand, And us'd them so that they commend him well.†
Canto 1.12-22
- These in the flame with ceaseless groans deplore The ambush of the horse, that open'd wide A portal for that goodly seed to pass, Which sow'd imperial Rome; nor less the guile Lament they, whence of her Achilles 'reft Deidamia yet in death complains.†
Canto 1.23-22
- In guile.†
Canto 1.N
Definition:
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(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful