All 12 Uses of
mortal
in
Dante's Purgatory -- translated by Norton
- See, how he holds them straight toward heaven, stroking the air with his eternal feathers that are not changed like mortal hair.†
Canto 1-11
- It replied to me, "So as I loved thee in the mortal body, so loosed from it I love thee; therefore I stop; but wherefore goest thou?"†
Canto 1-11
- After I had my body broken by two mortal stabs, I rendered myself, weeping, to Him who pardons willingly.†
Canto 1-11
- [3] The seven P's stand for the seven so-called mortal sins,— Peccati, not specific acts, but the evil dispositions of the soul from which all evil deeds spring,—pride, envy, anger, sloth (accidia), avarice, gluttony, and lust.†
Canto 1-11
- I saw Briareus[1] transfixed by the celestial bolt, lying at the other side, heavy upon the earth in mortal chill.†
Canto 12-22
- And I, "This one who is with me, and says not a word: and I am alive; and therefore ask of me, spirit elect, if thou wouldst that I should yet move for thee on earth my mortal feet."†
Canto 12-22
- Following him, I bore my forehead like one who has it laden with thought, and makes of himself the half arch of a bridge, when I heard, "Come ye! here is the passage," spoken in a mode soft and benign, such as is not heard in this mortal region.†
Canto 12-22
- And had it not been that I set right my care, when I understood the passage where thou dost exclaim, as if indignant with human nature, "O cursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not impel the appetite of mortals?†
Canto 12-22
- A Lady is on high who winneth grace for us, whereby I bring my mortal part through your world.†
Canto 23-33
- That pleasant apple which through so many branches the care of mortals goes seeking, to-day shall put in peace thy hungerings.†
Canto 23-33 *
- And if the supreme pleasure thus failed thee through my death, what mortal thing ought then to have drawn thee into its desire?†
Canto 23-33
- [6] The seven heads have been interpreted as the seven mortal sins, which grew up in the transformed church, the result of its wealth and temporal power.†
Canto 23-33
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death