All 50 Uses of
mortal
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Neptune, by prayer repentant rarely won, Afflicts the chief, to avenge his giant son, Whose visual orb Ulysses robb'd of light; Great Polypheme, of more than mortal might?†
Book 1
- Abrupt, with eagle-speed she cut the sky; Instant invisible to mortal eye.†
Book 1
- No—long as life this mortal shall inspire, Or as my children imitate their sire.†
Book 3
- To Pallas, first of gods, prepare the feast, Who graced our rites, a more than mortal guest Let one, despatchful, bid some swain to lead A well-fed bullock from the grassy mead; One seek the harbour where the vessels moor, And bring thy friends, Telemachus! ashore (Leave only two the galley to attend); Another Laerceus must we send, Artist devine, whose skilful hands infold The victim's horn with circumfusile gold.†
Book 3
- O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he throw, And issued, like a god, to mortal view.†
Book 3
- But oh, beloved by Heaven! reserved to thee A happier lot the smiling Fates decree: Free from that law, beneath whose mortal sway Matter is changed, and varying forms decay, Elysium shall be thine: the blissful plains Of utmost earth, where Rhadamanthus reigns.†
Book 4
- The saffron morn, with early blushes spread, Now rose refulgent from Tithonus' bed; With new-born day to gladden mortal sight, And gild the courts of heaven with sacred light.†
Book 5
- Go, to the nymph be these our orders borne 'tis Jove's decree, Ulysses shall return: The patient man shall view his old abodes, Nor helped by mortal hand, nor guiding gods In twice ten days shall fertile Scheria find, Alone, and floating to the wave and wind.†
Book 5
- Ye envy mortal and immortal joy, And love, the only sweet of life destroy, Did ever goddess by her charms engage A favour'd mortal, and not feel your rage?†
Book 5
- Ye envy mortal and immortal joy, And love, the only sweet of life destroy, Did ever goddess by her charms engage A favour'd mortal, and not feel your rage?†
Book 5
- For him the nymph a rich repast ordains, Such as the mortal life of man sustains; Before herself were placed the the cates divine, Ambrosial banquet and celestial wine.†
Book 5
- Am I inferior to a mortal dame?†
Book 5
- Though well I see thy graces far above The dear, though mortal, object of my love, Of youth eternal well the difference know, And the short date of fading charms below; Yet every day, while absent thus I roam, I languish to return and die at home.†
Book 5
- (Herself a mortal once, of Cadmus' strain, But now an azure sister of the main) Swift as a sea-mew springing from the flood, All radiant on the raft the goddess stood; Then thus address'd him: "Thou whom heaven decrees To Neptune's wrath, stern tyrant of the seas!†
Book 5
- Or some enormous whale the god may send (For many such an Amphitrite attend); Too well the turns of mortal chance I know, And hate relentless of my heavenly foe.†
Book 5
- But if thy race Be mortal, and this earth thy native place, Blest is the father from whose loins you sprung, Blest is the mother at whose breast you hung.†
Book 6
- Alas! a mortal, like thyself, am I; No glorious native of yon azure sky: In form, ah how unlike their heavenly kind!†
Book 7
- Alas, a mortal! most oppress'd of those Whom Fate has loaded with a weight of woes; By a sad train of Miseries alone Distinguish'd long, and second now to none!†
Book 7
- …with manly sense; Here Heaven an elegance of form denies, But wisdom the defect of form supplies; This man with energy of thought controls, And steals with modest violence our souls; He speaks reservedly, but he speaks with force, Nor can one word be changed but for a worse; In public more than mortal he appears, And as he moves, the praising crowd reveres; While others, beauteous as the etherial kind, The nobler portion went, a knowing mind, In outward show Heaven gives thee to excel.†
Book 8
- …king; how Ithacus attends (Horrid as Mars); and how with dire alarms He fights—subdues, for Pallas strings his arms Thus while he sung, Ulysses' griefs renew, Tears bathe his cheeks, and tears the ground bedew As some fond matron views in mortal fight Her husband falling in his country's right; Frantic through clashing swords she runs, she flies, As ghastly pale he groans, and faints and dies; Close to his breast she grovels on the ground, And bathes with floods of tears the gaping…†
Book 8
- "Opposed to the Cyclopean coast, there lay An isle, whose hill their subject fields survey; Its name Lachaea, crown'd with many a grove, Where savage goats through pathless thickets rove: No needy mortals here, with hunger bold, Or wretched hunters through the wintry cold Pursue their flight; but leave them safe to bound From hill to hill, o'er all the desert ground.†
Book 9 *
- "His voice like thunder through the cavern sounds; My bold companions thrilling fear confounds, Appall'd at sight of more than mortal man!†
Book 9
- A deed so rash had finished all our fate, No mortal forces from the lofty gate Could roll the rock.†
Book 9
- Declare thy name: not mortal is this juice, Such as the unbless'd Cyclopaean climes produce (Though sure our vine the largest cluster yields, And Jove's scorn'd thunder serves to drench our fields); But this descended from the bless'd abodes, A rill of nectar, streaming from the gods.'†
Book 9
- Does any mortal, in the unguarded hour Of sleep, oppress thee, or by fraud or power?†
Book 9
- This, Telemus Eurymedes foretold (The mighty seer who on these hills grew old; Skill'd the dark fates of mortals to declare, And learn'd in all wing'd omens of the air); Long since he menaced, such was Fate's command; And named Ulysses as the destined hand.†
Book 9
- I climb'd a cliff, with spear and sword in hand, Whose ridge o'erlook'd a shady length of land; To learn if aught of mortal works appear, Or cheerful voice of mortal strike the ear?†
Book 10
- I climb'd a cliff, with spear and sword in hand, Whose ridge o'erlook'd a shady length of land; To learn if aught of mortal works appear, Or cheerful voice of mortal strike the ear?†
Book 10
- Presaging tears apace began to rain; But tears in mortal miseries are vain.†
Book 10
- "Thus while he spoke, the sovereign plant he drew Where on the all-bearing earth unmark'd it grew, And show'd its nature and its wondrous power: Black was the root, but milky white the flower; Moly the name, to mortals hard to find, But all is easy to the ethereal kind.†
Book 10
- Not mortal thou, nor mortal is thy brain.†
Book 10
- Not mortal thou, nor mortal is thy brain.†
Book 10
- Thy fated road (the magic power replied), Divine Ulysses! ask no mortal guide.†
Book 10
- "My sad companions heard in deep despair; Frantic they tore their manly growth of hair; To earth they fell: the tears began to rain; But tears in mortal miseries are vain, Sadly they fared along the sea-beat shore; Still heaved their hearts, and still their eyes ran o'er.†
Book 10
- For swift as thought the goddess had been there, And thence had glided, viewless as the air: The paths of gods what mortal can survey?†
Book 10
- And from his holy lips these accents broke: " 'Why, mortal, wanderest thou from cheerful day, To tread the downward, melancholy way?†
Book 11
- Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size, The gods they challenge, and affect the skies: Heaved on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.†
Book 11
- "'O friends, a thousand ways frail mortals lead To the cold tomb, and dreadful all to tread; But dreadful most, when by a slow decay Pale hunger wastes the manly strength away.†
Book 12
- Till age and death shall gently call thee hence, (Sure fate of every mortal excellence!†
Book 13
- Perpetual waters o'er the pavement glide; Two marble doors unfold on either side; Sacred the south, by which the gods descend; But mortals enter at the northern end.†
Book 13
- whose wit exceeds the powers divine, No less than mortals are surpass'd by thine.†
Book 13
- It fits thee now to wear a dark disguise, And secret walk unknown to mortal eyes.†
Book 13
- So looked the chief, so moved: to mortal eyes Object uncouth! a man of miseries!†
Book 13
- On god or mortal to obtrude a lie Forbear, and dread to flatter as to die.†
Book 14
- Of all the ills unhappy mortals know, A life of wanderings is the greatest woe; On all their weary ways wait care and pain, And pine and penury, a meagre train.†
Book 15
- Then fear no mortal arm; if Heaven destroy, We must resign: for man is born to die.†
Book 16
- Unbless'd thy hand! if in this low disguise Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies; They (curious oft of mortal actions) deign In forms like these to round the earth and main, Just and unjust recording in their mind, And with sure eyes inspecting all mankind."†
Book 17
- "Be calm (replies the sire); to none impart, But oft revolve the vision in thy heart: Celestials, mantled in excess of light, Can visit unapproach'd by mortal sight.†
Book 19
- I not the fondness of your soul reprove For such a lord! who crown'd your virgin love With the dear blessing of a fair increase; Himself adorn'd with more than mortal grace: Yet while I speak the mighty woe suspend; Truth forms my tale; to pleasing truth attend.†
Book 19
- …no longer toss'd; Restless his body rolls, to rage resign'd As one who long with pale-eyed famine pined, The savoury cates on glowing embers cast Incessant turns, impatient for repast Ulysses so, from side to side-devolved, In self-debate the suitor's doom resolved When in the form of mortal nymph array'd, From heaven descends the Jove-born martial maid; And'hovering o'er his head in view confess'd, The goddess thus her favourite care address'd: "O thou, of mortals most inured to woes!†
Book 20
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death