All 6 Uses
infamy
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow
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- And he to me: "This miserable mode
Maintain the melancholy souls of those
Who lived withouten infamy or praise.†Canto 1.1-11 - Such as that ruin is which in the flank
Smote, on this side of Trent, the Adige,
Either by earthquake or by failing stay,
For from the mountain's top, from which it moved,
Unto the plain the cliff is shattered so,
Some path 'twould give to him who was above;
Even such was the descent of that ravine,
And on the border of the broken chasm
The infamy of Crete was stretched along,
Who was conceived in the fictitious cow;
And when he us beheld, he bit himself,
Even as one whom anger racks within.†Canto 1.12-22 - After the fire a little more had roared
In its own fashion, the sharp point it moved
This way and that, and then gave forth such breath:
"If I believed that my reply were made
To one who to the world would e'er return,
This flame without more flickering would stand still;
But inasmuch as never from this depth
Did any one return, if I hear true,
Without the fear of infamy I answer,
I was a man of arms, then Cordelier,
Believing thus begirt to make amends;
And truly my belief had been fulfilled
But for the High Priest, whom may ill betide,
Who put me back into my former sins;
And how and wherefore I will have thee hear.†Canto 1.23-34 - Then he began: "Thou wilt that I renew
The desperate grief, which wrings my heart already
To think of only, ere I speak of it;
But if my words be seed that may bear fruit
Of infamy to the traitor whom I gnaw,
Speaking and weeping shalt thou see together.†Canto 1.23-34 - He thence not land, but sin and infamy,
Shall gain, so much more grievous to himself
As the more light such damage he accounts.†Canto 2.12-22 * - Then we accuse Sapphira with her husband,
We laud the hoof-beats Heliodorus had,
And the whole mount in infamy encircles
Polymnestor who murdered Polydorus.†Canto 2.12-22
Definitions:
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(1)
(infamy) famous for something that is bad; or an extremely bad event
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)