Which word in this excerpt from Homer's Odyssey means the same as "to cause" or "to impose" something?

If no man hurt thee, but the hand divine
INFLICT disease, it fits thee to RESIGN:
To Jove or to thy father Neptune pray.'
The BRETHREN cried, and instant STRODE away.
Joy touch'd my secret soul and conscious heart,
Pleased with the effect of conduct and of art.
Meantime the Cyclop, raging with his wound,
Spreads his wide arms, and searches round and round:

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Which word in this excerpt from Homer's Odyssey means the same as "to cause" or "to impose" something?

If no man hurt thee, but the hand divine
INFLICT disease, it fits thee to RESIGN:
To Jove or to thy father Neptune pray.'
The BRETHREN cried, and instant STRODE away.
Joy touch'd my secret soul and conscious heart,
Pleased with the effect of conduct and of art.
Meantime the Cyclop, raging with his wound,
Spreads his wide arms, and searches round and round:

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The capitalized words are the given choices, correct?

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Definitions of each meaning.  ~

Inflict - Cause (something unpleasant or painful) to be suffered by someone or something.
Resign - Voluntarily leave a job or other position.
Brethren - Archaic plural form of brother
Strode - Past of stride.