All 10 Uses of
mortal
in
Medea by Euripides - (translated by: T.A. Buckley)
- Do ye hear what she says, and how she invokes Themis hearing the vow, and Jove who is considered the dispenser of oaths to mortals?†
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- But thou wouldest not err in calling men of old foolish and nothing wise, who invented songs, for festivals, for banquets, and for suppers, the delights of life that charm the ear; but no mortal has discovered how to soothe with music and with varied strains those bitter pangs, from which death and dreadful misfortunes overthrow families.†
- Surely I am in many things different from many mortals, for in my judgment, whatever man being unjust, is deeply skilled in argument, merits the severest punishment.†
- Since thou hast communicated this plan to me, desirous both of doing good to thee, and assisting the laws of mortals, I dissuade thee from doing this.†
- Thou art not the only one who art separated from thy children; it behooves a mortal to bear calamities with meekness.†
- But one ill to mortals, the last of all, I now will mention.†
- How then does it profit that the Gods heap on mortals yet this grief in addition to others, the most bitter of all, for the sake of children?†
- But the affairs of mortals not now for the first time I deem a shadow, and I would venture to say that those persons who seem to be wise and are researchers of arguments, these I say, run into the greatest folly.†
- For no mortal man is happy; but wealth pouring in, one man may be more fortunate than another, but happy he can not be.†
- For kindred pollutions are difficult of purification to mortals; correspondent calamities falling from the Gods to the earth upon the houses of the murderers.†
Definition:
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(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death