All 39 Uses
immortal
in
The Odyssey - translated by: Fitzgerald
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- Her ladyship Kalypso clung to him in her sea-hollowed caves —a nymph, immortal and most beautiful, who craved him for her own.†
Chpt 1
- So said Telemakhos, though in his heart he knew his visitor had been immortal.†
Chpt 1
- ~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ BOOK III THE LORD OF THE WESTERN APPROACHES The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.†
Chpt 3
- Now she replied in her immortal beauty: 'I'll put it for you clearly as may be, friend.†
Chpt 4
- The Ancient of the Salt Sea haunts this place, immortal Proteus of Egypt; all the deeps are known to him; he serves under Poseidon, and is, they say, my father.†
Chpt 4
- You gods know everything; now you can tell me: which of the immortals chained me here?†
Chpt 4 *immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- Soon I drew in to the great stream fed by heaven and, laying by, slew bulls in the proper number, until the immortal gods were thus appeased; then heaped a death mound on that shore against all-quenching time for Agamemnon's honor, and put to sea once more.†
Chpt 4
- Now face to face the magical Kalypso recognized him, as all immortal gods know one another on sight-though seeming strangers, far from home.†
Chpt 5
- You hate it when we choose to lie with men —immortal flesh by some dear mortal side.†
Chpt 5
- Swiftly she turned and led him to her cave, and they went in, the mortal and immortal.†
Chpt 5
- If you could see it all, before you go —all the adversity you face at sea —you would stay here, and guard this house, and be immortal-though you wanted her forever, that bride for whom you pine each day.†
Chpt 5
- Why, there's no fool so brash, and never will be, as to bring war or pillage to this coast, for we are dear to the immortal gods, living here, in the sea that rolls forever, distant from other lands and other men.†
Chpt 6
- The enchantress in her beauty fed and caressed me, promised me I should be immortal, youthful, all the days to come; but in my heart I never gave consent though seven years detained.†
Chpt 7
- Immortal clothing I had from her, and kept it wet with tears.†
Chpt 7
- There the Graces bathed and anointed her with golden oil —a bloom that clings upon immortal flesh alone —and let her folds of mantle fall in glory.†
Chpt 8
- In ignorance leaving the fruitage of the earth in mystery to the immortal gods, they neither plow nor sow by hand, nor till the ground, though grain —wild wheat and barley-grows untended, and wine-grapes, in clusters, ripen in heaven's rain.†
Chpt 9
- Then Kirke, loveliest of all immortals, came to counsel me: 'Son of Laertes and the gods of old, Odysseus, master mariner and soldier, enough of weeping fits.†
Chpt 10immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- ~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ BOOK XI A GATHERING OF SHADES We bore down on the ship at the sea's edge and launched her on the salt immortal sea, stepping our mast and spar in the black ship; embarked the ram and ewe and went aboard in tears, with bitter and sore dread upon us.†
Chpt 11
- We ranked you with immortals in your lifetime, we Argives did, and here your power is royal among the dead men's shades.†
Chpt 11immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- She stood among us in immortal beauty jesting: 'Hearts of oak, did you go down alive into the homes of Death?†
Chpt 12
- Old contender, will you not yield to the immortal gods?†
Chpt 12
- Immortal, too, their cowherds are-their shepherds —Phaethousa and Lampetia, sweetly braided nymphs that divine Neaira bore to the overlord of high noon, Helios.†
Chpt 12
- And the Lord Helios burst into angry speech amid the immortals: 'O Father Zeus and gods in bliss forever, punish Odysseus' men!†
Chpt 12immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- There, on the inmost shore, an olive tree throws wide its boughs over the bay; nearby a cave of dusky light is hidden for those immortal girls, the Naiades.†
Chpt 13
- Said he: "Father of gods, will the bright immortals ever pay me respect again, if mortals do not?†
Chpt 13immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- The immortal gods show you no less esteem, and the rough consequence would make them slow to let barbs fly at their eldest and most noble.†
Chpt 13
- Here is the cove the sea lord Phorkys owns, there is the olive spreading out her leaves over the inner bay, and there the cavern dusky and lovely, hallowed by the feet of those immortal girls, the Naiades —the same wide cave under whose vault you came to honor them with hekatombs-and there Mount Neion, with his forest on his back!†
Chpt 13
- I'll take on fighting men three hundred strong if you fight at my back, immortal lady!†
Chpt 13
- Perhaps only the immortal gods could say if I should claim to have seen him: I have roamed about the world so long.†
Chpt 14
- The gods, as ever, had their due in the swineherd's thought, for he it was who tossed the forehead bristles as a first offering on the flames, calling upon the immortal gods to let Odysseus reach his home once more.†
Chpt 14
- Someone immortal who cares for you will make a fair wind blow.†
Chpt 15
- I swear you were in rags and old, and here you stand like one of the immortals!†
Chpt 16immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- And while she slept the goddess endowed her with immortal grace to hold the eyes of the Akhaians.†
Chpt 18
- How the immortal gods can change and drag us down once they begin to spin dark days for us!†
Chpt 20
- Just now how wise his counsel was, to leave the trial and turn your thoughts to the immortal gods!†
Chpt 21
- Penelope said: "Nurse dear, though you have your wits about you, still it is hard not to be taken in by the immortals.†
Chpt 23immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- He sat then in the same chair by the pillar, facing his silent wife, and said: "Strange woman, the immortals of Olympos made you hard, harder than any.†
Chpt 23
- Then we heard the Muses sing a threnody in nine immortal voices.†
Chpt 24
- When these hard deeds were done by Lord Odysseus the immortal gods were not far off.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(immortal) living or existing forever
or:
someone famous throughout history
or:
someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, "The Immortals" denotes a military corps of the Persian Empire. The Immortals were so-named because each time a member of the 10,000 man corps was killed or seriously wounded, he was replaced by another man. They are best remembered in western culture for their role in defeating the badly out-numbered Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.