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The Odyssey
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- But now, no use, he's died a wretched death.†
p. 83.1wretched = miserable or very bad
- All we'd do
is parade our wretched weakness.†p. 95.4 * - About all the rest who fought the Trojans there,
we know where each one died his wretched death,
but father ...even his death—
the son of Cronus shrouds it all in mystery.†p. 110.3 - What other tribute can we pay to wretched men
than to cut a lock, let tears roll down our cheeks?†p. 130.8 - With that he rammed the clouds together—both hands
clutching his trident—churned the waves into chaos, whipping
all the gales from every quarter, shrouding over in thunderheads
the earth and sea at once—and night swept down from the sky—
East and South Winds clashed and the raging West and North,
sprung from the heavens, roiled heaving breakers up—
and Odysseus' knees quaked, his spirit too;
numb with fear he spoke to his own great heart:
"Wretched man—what becomes of me now, at last?†p. 161.8 - A hero's funeral then, my glory spread by comrades—
now what a wretched death I'm doomed to die!†p. 162.2 - The eye of the Sun can never
flash his rays through the dark and bring them light,
not when he climbs the starry skies or when he wheels
back down from the heights to touch the earth once more—
an endless, deadly night overhangs those wretched men.†p. 250.2 - So I died—a wretched, ignominious death—and round me
all my comrades killed, no mercy, one after another,
just like white-tusked boars
butchered in some rich lord of power's halls
for a wedding, banquet or groaning public feast.†p. 262.9 - But I went lurching along our battered hulk
till the sea-surge ripped the plankings from the keel
and the waves swirled it away, stripped bare, and snapped
the mast from the decks—but a backstay made of bull's-hide
still held fast, and with this I lashed the mast and keel
together, made them one, riding my makeshift raft
as the wretched galewinds bore me on and on.†p. 284.5 - Wrapping myself around it,
I was borne along by the wretched galewinds,
rushed along nine days—on the tenth, at dead of night,
a shouldering breaker rolled me up along Thesprotia's beaches.†p. 311.6 - All too long we've sweated
over these white-tusked boars—our wretched labor—
while others wolf our work down free of charge!†p. 314.9 - ...
but he's surely died a wretched death by now.†p. 328.1 - She died of grief for her boy, her glorious boy,
it wore her down, a wretched way to go.†p. 330.9 - Wretched pig-boy, where do you take your filthy swine,
this sickening beggar who licks the pots at feasts?†p. 361.5 - You were fated to die a wretched death.†
p. 469.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(wretched) very badin various senses, including:
- unfortunate or miserable -- as in "wretched prisoners sleeping on the cold floor"
- of poor quality -- as in "wretched roads"
- morally bad -- as in "The wretched woman stole his wallet."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)