 Therewith the slayer of Argos gave me the plant that he had plucked from the ground, and he showed me the growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig; howbeit with...  Familiar Studies in Homer - Page 207by Agnes Mary Clerke - 1892 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1879 - 422 pages
...plucked from the ground, and he showed me the nature thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. The gods call it moly, but it is...dig; howbeit with the gods all things are possible. 'Then Hermes departed toward high Olympus, passing through the woodland isle, but as for me I held... | |
 | Homerus - 1879 - 518 pages
...growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, bat it is hard for mortal men to dig; howbeit with the gods all things are possible. ' Then Hermes departed toward high Olympus, up through the \toodland isle, but as for me I held on... | |
 | S. H. Butcher, A. Lang - 1883 - 470 pages
...the growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig; howbeit with the gods all things are possible. ' Then Hermes departed toward high Olympus, up through the woodland isle, but as for me I held on my... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Religion - 1884 - 340 pages
...minuteness. ' It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. " Moly," the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig, howbeit with the gods all things are possible.' The etymologies given of ' moly ' are almost as numerous as the etymologists. One derivation, from... | |
 | 1887 - 564 pages
...plucked from the ground, and he showed me the nature thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. The gods call it moly, but it is...Before the mind's eye of the poet, when he described the white flowers and black root of the vegetable snatched from the] reluctant earth by Hermes, was... | |
 | American periodicals - 1887 - 890 pages
...plucked from the ground, and he showed me the nature thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. The gods call it moly, but it is...Before the mind's eye of the poet, when he described the white flowers and black root of the vegetable snatched from the reluctant earth by Hermes, was... | |
 | 1889 - 646 pages
...thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like milk. Moly, the gods call it, but it is nard for mortal men to dig ; howbeit with the gods all things are possible." We are helped to a conception of the antiquity of the Homeric poems when we recollect that the identification... | |
 | J. Milton - 1891 - 306 pages
...the growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig ; howbeit with the gods all things are possible" (Butcher and Lang). Moly is the flower of ideal lands. Tennyson's Lotos-eaters lie "Propt on beds of... | |
 | John Milton - 1891 - 322 pages
...the growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig ; howbeit with the gods all things are possible" (Butcher and Lang). Moly is the flower of ideal lands. Tennyson's Lotos-eaters lie "Propt on beds of... | |
 | English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...charms of Circe. " It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig ; howbeit, with the gods all things are possible. " (Odyssey, 303-306.) 3 A name probably coined by Milton from Haemonia fThessaly), a land once famous... | |
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