b POPULAR NAMES 



same way as the Ambrosia, which was the food of the 

 Gods, was fabled to preserve them immortal. The Pr. Pm. 

 translates it salg'ia sylvestris, wild sage ; Palsgrave ache 

 champestre, field parsley ; Cotgrave oke-of- Cappadocia, or 

 -of -Jerusalem. The name is now assigned by botanists to 

 a plant of the wormwood kind, Ambrosia, L. 



That of the poets was discovered by Isis : 



'Evpfiv Se cwmjj' KCM TO TIJS afioj/aeriay (pa.pfj.aKov. Died. Sic. i. 25. 



In Homer and the other early poets ambrosia was the food* 

 and nectar the drink, of the Gods, as in Odyss. v. 93 : 



'fls apa ty<ainr\ffa(Ta 6ta irapedriKe -rpairtfav, 

 J A^/3pO(TMjs irA.Tjcraffo' Kfpafffff Se vtitrap epvOpov. 



and in Ovid (ex Ponto, i. 10) 



"Nectar et ambrosiam, latices epulasque deorum." 

 But the two became confused together, and the same author 

 tells us (Met. xiv. 606) that Venus, after bathing ^Eneas, 



" Ambrosia cum dulci nectare mista, 

 Contigit os, fecitque deum." 



In the beautiful tale of Cupid and Psyche in the Golden 

 Ass of Apuleius, (b. vi,) Jupiter in conferring immortality 

 on Psyche, gives her a cup of ambrosia to drink : " por- 

 recto ambrosice poculo, Sume, inquit, Psyche, et immortalis 

 esto." The Ambrose of our older English writers seems to 

 have been Chenopodium Botrys, L. 



AMEOS, the genitive of Ammi, used, like Caruy, for the 

 seed of the plant, A. rnajus, L. 



ANEMONY, Gr. dvepcovr), from ai/e/io?, Skr. anila, wind, 

 from an, to blow* It is said by Bion to have sprung from 

 the tears that Venus wept over the body of Adonis, a 

 myth that seems to whisper that the tears of that frail and 

 loving goddess were soon blown away. (Idyl. i. 1. 62). 



*A & rav Kv6eptiav, dirwAero KoAoy 'A8a>m. 

 AaKpvov a Tlafyia roffffov X ffl > baaov 'A8m 

 Ai>a x ff ' Ta 8e worro iron xBovi yiyvtrai aiffrn. 

 Alfj.a p(.6ov riKTft, ra Se SaKpua rav 



