All 43 Uses of
mortal
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Cowper)
- I give thee praise above All mortals, for that either thee the muse Jove's daughter teaches, or the King, himself, Apollo; since thou so record'st the fate, With such clear method, of Achaia's host, 600 Their deeds heroic, and their num'rous toils, As thou hadst present been thyself, or learnt From others present there, the glorious tale.†
Book 8mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death
- On thee, Jove's daughter, Proserpine, obtrudes No airy semblance vain; but such the state 260 And nature is of mortals once deceased.†
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- As when his eye one fixes on a bard From heav'n instructed in such themes as charm The ear of mortals, ever as he sings The people press, insatiable, to hear, So, in my cottage, seated at my side, That stranger with his tale enchanted me.†
Book 17
- But I, their soothsayer alone, must fall, Though unoffending; such is the return 370 By mortals made for benefits received!†
Book 22
- I tell thee true; my mother's voice Affirms me his, but since no mortal knows 270 His derivation, I affirm it not.†
Book 1
- Some mortal may inform thee, or a word,[4] Perchance, by Jove directed (safest source Of notice to mankind) may reach thine ear.†
Book 1
- Nor are these sorrows all; What tongue of mortal man could all relate?†
Book 3
- the time may come When to his home restored, either alone, Or aided by the force of all the Greeks, Ulysses may avenge the wrong; at least, Should Pallas azure-eyed thee love, as erst 280 At Troy, the scene of our unnumber'd woes, She lov'd Ulysses (for I have not known The Gods assisting so apparently A mortal man, as him Minerva there) Should Pallas view thee also with like love And kind solicitude, some few of those Should dream, perchance, of wedlock never more.†
Book 3
- let no mortal man pretend Comparison with Jove; for Jove's abode And all his stores are incorruptible.†
Book 4
- But whether mortal man with me may vie 100 In the display of wealth, or whether not, This know, that after many toils endured, And perilous wand'rings wide, in the eighth year I brought my treasures home.†
Book 4
- Hard task for mortal hands to bind a God!†
Book 4
- Ye are unjust, ye Gods, and envious past All others, grudging if a Goddess take A mortal man openly to her arms!†
Book 5
- 150 So also, O ye Gods, ye envy me The mortal man, my comfort.†
Book 5
- 230 Within the vaulted cavern they arrived, The Goddess and the man; on the same throne Ulysses sat, whence Hermes had aris'n, And viands of all kinds, such as sustain The life of mortal man, Calypso placed Before him, both for bev'rage and for food.†
Book 5
- Yet can I not in stature or in form Myself suspect inferior aught to her, Since competition cannot be between Mere mortal beauties, and a form divine.†
Book 5
- I know that my Penelope in form And stature altogether yields to thee, For she is mortal, and immortal thou, 260 From age exempt; yet not the less I wish My home, and languish daily to return.†
Book 5
- But Cadmus' beauteous daughter (Ino once, 400 Now named Leucothea) saw him; mortal erst Was she, and trod the earth,[22] but nymph become Of Ocean since, in honours shares divine.†
Book 5
- what mortal race inhabit here?†
Book 6
- Art thou some Goddess, or of mortal race?†
Book 6
- But if, of mortal race, thou dwell below, Thrice happy then, thy parents I account, And happy thrice thy brethren.†
Book 6
- For never with these eyes a mortal form Beheld I comparable aught to thine, In man or woman.†
Book 6
- who after long 220 Calamities endured, of all who live Thee first approach, nor mortal know beside Of the inhabitants of all the land.†
Book 6
- Why flee ye thus, and whither, from the sight Of a mere mortal?†
Book 6
- Fear'st thou lest Some mortal man drive off thy flocks?†
Book 9
- should any mortal man inquire To whom thy shameful loss of sight thou ow'st, Say, to Ulysses, city-waster Chief, Laertes' son, native of Ithaca.†
Book 9
- Black was the root, Milk-white the blossom; Moly is its name In heav'n; not easily by mortal man Dug forth, but all is easy to the Gods.†
Book 10
- These rocks are two; one lifts his summit sharp High as the spacious heav'ns, wrapt in dun clouds 90 Perpetual, which nor autumn sees dispers'd Nor summer, for the sun shines never there; No mortal man might climb it or descend, Though twice ten hands and twice ten feet he own'd, For it is levigated as by art.†
Book 12
- 100 There Scylla dwells, and thence her howl is heard Tremendous; shrill her voice is as the note Of hound new-whelp'd, but hideous her aspect, Such as no mortal man, nor ev'n a God Encount'ring her, should with delight survey.†
Book 12
- She is no mortal, but a deathless pest, Impracticable, savage, battle-proof.†
Book 12
- Perennial springs water it, and it shows A twofold entrance; ingress one affords To mortal man, which Northward looks direct, But holier is the Southern far; by that No mortal enters, but the Gods alone.†
Book 13
- Perennial springs water it, and it shows A twofold entrance; ingress one affords To mortal man, which Northward looks direct, But holier is the Southern far; by that No mortal enters, but the Gods alone.†
Book 13
- I shall no longer share Respect and reverence among the Gods, Since, now, Phaeacia's mortal race have ceas'd To honour me, though from myself derived.†
Book 13
- But if, profanely rash, a mortal man Should dare to slight thee, to avenge the wrong Some future day is ever in thy pow'r.†
Book 13
- what mortal race inhabits here?†
Book 13
- No worse condition is of mortal man Than his who wanders; for the poor man, driv'n By woe and by misfortune homeless forth, A thousand mis'ries, day by day, endures.†
Book 15
- no. Thou art not He, But some Divinity beguiles my soul With mock'ries to afflict me still the more; For never mortal man could so have wrought By his own pow'r; some interposing God Alone could render thee both young and old, For old thou wast of late, and foully clad, But wear'st the semblance, now, of those in heav'n!†
Book 16
- The Gods who dwell in yonder heav'n, with ease Dignify or debase a mortal man.†
Book 16
- Receiving me in his august abode, He entertain'd me with such welcome kind As a glad father shews to his own son Long-lost and newly found; so Nestor me, And his illustrious offspring, entertain'd, But yet assured me that he nought had heard From mortal lips of my magnanimous sire, Whether alive or dead; with his own steeds He sent me, and with splendid chariot thence 140 To spear-famed Menelaus, Atreus' son.†
Book 17
- uncensurable by the lips Of mortal man!†
Book 19
- Jove surely of all mankind Thee hated most, though ever in thy heart Devoutly giv'n; for never mortal man So many thighs of fatted victims burn'd, And chosen hecatombs produced as thou To Jove the Thund'rer, him entreating still That he would grant thee a serene old age, And to instruct, thyself, thy glorious son.†
Book 19
- [86] Such dreams 700 As through the thin-leaf'd iv'ry portal come Sooth, but perform not, utt'ring empty sounds; But such as through the polish'd horn escape, If, haply seen by any mortal eye, Prove faithful witnesses, and are fulfill'd†
Book 19
- a man will in his friend 50 Confide, though mortal, and in valour less And wisdom than himself; but I who keep Thee in all difficulties, am divine.†
Book 20
- But now, since evident thou hast described Our bed, which never mortal yet beheld, Ourselves except and Actoris my own Attendant, giv'n me when I left my home By good Icarius, and who kept the door, 270 Though hard to be convinced, at last I yield.†
Book 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death
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(2)
(mortal as in: a mortal wound) causing death
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(3)
(mortal as in: felt mortal agony) extreme or intense
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)