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contrived
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The Odyssey
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But then, once we'd sacked King Priam's craggy city,
Zeus contrived in his heart a fatal homeward run
for all the Achaeans who were fools, at least,
dishonest too, so many met a disastrous end,
thanks to the lethal rage
of the mighty Father's daughter.†
p. 111.7

contrived = unnatural or arranged
No barrow piled high on the earth for his dead body,
no, the dogs and birds would have feasted on his corpse,
sprawled on the plain outside the city gates, and no one,
no woman in all Achaea, would have wept a moment,
such a monstrous crime the man contrived!†
p. 115.9
What greater feat can that cunning head contrive?†
p. 265.1

contrive = arrange
But then, when thundering Zeus contrived that expedition—
that disaster that brought so many fighters to their knees—
and men kept pressing me and renowned Idomeneus
to head a fleet to Troy,
there was no way out, no denying them then,
the voice of the people bore down much too hard.†
p. 309.2

contrived = unnatural or arranged
And now I cannot escape a marriage, nor can I contrive
a deft way out.†
p. 395.7 *

contrive = arrange
"Lord of men, Agamemnon,
I remember it all, your majesty, as you say,
and I will tell you, start to finish now,
the story of our death,
the brutal end contrived to take us off.†
p. 472.3

contrived = unnatural or arranged

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