All 4 Uses of
mortal
in
The Epic of Gilgamesh
- No mortal man has gone this way before,
Book 4 *mortal = human (especially merely human)
- When Enlil had come, when he saw the boat, he was wrath and swelled with anger at the gods, the host of heaven, "Has any of these mortals escaped?†
Book 5mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death
- The Man-Scorpion opened his mouth and said, speaking to Gilgamesh" 'No man born of woman has done what you have asked, no mortal man has gone into the mountain; the length of it is twelve leagues of darkness; in it there is no light, but the heart is oppressed with darkness.†
Book 4
- He touched our foreheads to bless us saying, "In time past Utnapishtim was a mortal man; henceforth he and his wife shall live in the distance at the mouth of the rivers."†
Book 5
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)