Kerdos
idea · 2 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
kerdos · cunning · craft · gain · trick
in the texts
Odyssey
Profit or advantage, named explicitly as kerdos when Telemakhos questions whether his father's plan to test the male servants would be worthwhile.
I do not think, however, the plan you propose will be a gain [ kerdos] for either of us.
Telemakhos deliberately [ kerdos] made Odysseus sit in the part of the room that was paved with stone;
In fact Odysseus would have been here long ago, had he not thought better to go from land to land gathering wealth;
Iliad
Cunning or craft, used to describe how a man with worse horses can still out-position a rival, and how Antilokhos and Odysseus win by guile.
Forthwith uprose great Ajax the son of Telamon, and crafty Odysseus, full of craft [ kerdos] rose also.
Next after him came in Antilokhos of the race of Neleus, who had passed Menelaos by craft [ kerdos] and not by the fleetness of his horses;
If a man go wide in rounding this way and that, whereas a man of craft [ kerdos] may have worse horses, but he will keep them well in hand when he sees the turning-post [ terma];