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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_147596" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_147596" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey. </p> <p> (2): (n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage. </p> | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_52340" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_52340" /> == | ||
<p> was the drink of the immortal gods, according to the early | <p> was the drink of the immortal gods, according to the early Greek poets, and was served around to them by the hands of [[Hebe]] or Ganymede. It is confounded by some of the ancient writers with ambrosia, the food of the gods. Thus [[Sappho]] and [[Alcman]] make nectar the food of the gods, and ambrosia their drink. But nectar is the name given by Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and the Greek poets generally, and by the Romans, to the beverage of the gods. [[Homer]] describes nectar as resembling red wine, and represents its continued use as causing immortality. By the later poets, nectar and ambrosia are represented as of most delicious odor; and sprinkling with nectar, or anointing with ambrosia, is spoken of as conferring perpetual youth, and these acts are assumed as the symbols of everything most delightful to the taste. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_77074" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_77074" /> == | ||
Latest revision as of 10:23, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
(2): ( n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
was the drink of the immortal gods, according to the early Greek poets, and was served around to them by the hands of Hebe or Ganymede. It is confounded by some of the ancient writers with ambrosia, the food of the gods. Thus Sappho and Alcman make nectar the food of the gods, and ambrosia their drink. But nectar is the name given by Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and the Greek poets generally, and by the Romans, to the beverage of the gods. Homer describes nectar as resembling red wine, and represents its continued use as causing immortality. By the later poets, nectar and ambrosia are represented as of most delicious odor; and sprinkling with nectar, or anointing with ambrosia, is spoken of as conferring perpetual youth, and these acts are assumed as the symbols of everything most delightful to the taste.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
In the regard of the Greeks the drink of the gods, which, along with ambrosia, their food, nourished the ichor, their blood, and kept them ever in the bloom of immortal youth; it was not permitted to mortals to drink of it.
