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immortal
in
A Grace Given in Sorrow, translated by Fitzgerald
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Why does the great one call me to him now, when I am shy of mingling with immortals, being so heavyhearted?†
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immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
The blest immortal ones favor your prince, and care for every limb even in death, as they so cherished him.†
The old king's heart exulted, and he said: "Child, it was well to honor the immortals.†

immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
That would be to compromise an immortal's dignity— to be received with guests of mortal station.†
Shining gifts at the gods' hands he had from birth: felicity, wealth overflowing, rule of the Myrmidons, a bride immortal at his mortal side.†
Among the rocks of Sipylos' lonely mountainside, where nymphs who race Akheloios river go to rest, she, too, long turned to stone, somewhere broods on the gall immortal gods gave her to drink.†
Hekabe lifted her lamenting voice among them: "Hektor, dearest of sons to me, in life you had the favor of the immortal gods, and they have cared for you in death as well.†

Definitions:

(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.