Ay, for Aegisthus is not here, who barred Your rashness from Defaming your own kin Beyond the gates.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles
If the charges against him are proven true, then there is no doubt that the course of General Bragg will be to dismiss him from his staff; but if, on the contrary, malicious slanders are Defaming this ally, he is Hercules enough and brave enough to punish them.
"Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863"
Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle
He would ruin him by Defaming his character, and so skilfully would he accomplish his work that the judge himself would realize the hopelessness of resistance.
"The Lion and the Mouse A Story of an American Life"
Charles Klein