HERODOTUS AS A BOTANIST. 107 



ADDENDA IV. 



"AvBivov elbap. Vegetable as opposed to animal food is simply meant 

 according to Liddell and Scott, refeiring to this passage wliere the esculent 

 lotus is termed civdivov eldap. 



ADDENDA V. 



" To the lote-tree springing by Alla's throne, 

 Whose flowers have a soul in every leaf." 



Lalla RooJch, p. 261. 

 Undercurrent of thought ho'e connecting the lotus with the unseen 

 woild. Cf. Eev. xxii. Leaves of tree of life for healing of the nations. 



ADDENDA VI. 



Another typical tending towards the unseen. The waters ai'e sad, are 

 chilly, flower no longei' erect, no more the sunlit sparkle of the wave. 

 As the world's inhabitants wax feeble, the world loses its delights for 

 them. 



Utter confusion of localities in Tennyson's poem of the Lotos-eaters. 

 *' The Lotos blows by every winding creek." This must refer to the water 

 lily, and to Egypt. " The j^ellow lotos dust is blown." This also must 

 lefer to the pollen from off' the corolla of the water lily. On the other 

 hand " the spicy downs " are typical of Greece and the Greek islands 

 from the scented undergrowth of cistus, myrtle, etc., so abundant there. 



Again, 



" In the red west thro' mountain depth the dale was seen far inland," 

 may I'efer to Cyrene but cannot possibly to Egypt. 



" The yellow down bordered with palm,"' 



may be ti'ue of Cyrene as well as of Egypt, but the picture of 



" Meadow set with slender galingale," 



is that of Italy or Greece. 

 And once more — 



" Blanches they bore of that enchanted stem 

 Laden with flower and fruit," 



-can only refer to North Africa, where both Homer and Herodotus agiee 



to place the Lotophagi. 



Yet again, in reference to pages 90 and 91, the essential point of 



Tennyson's poem is that he appears constantly to link the idea of the 



Lotos-eaters to that of another life. Witness such expressions as, — 

 " Enough of action and of motion." 

 " Chai-med sunset." " Voice was thin." 



" Red west." " As voices from the grave." 



" Faces pale." " Deep asleep." 



*' Alien shores." " Yet all awake." 



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