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1 ambrosia
1.ambrŏsĭa, ae, f., = ambrosia.I.Lit., ambrosia, the food of the gods (as nectar was their drink):II.non enim ambrosiā deos aut nectare laetari arbitror,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65; Ov. P. 1, 10, 11:Suaviolum dulci dulcius ambrosiā,
Cat. 99, 2.—Hence: orator ambrosiā alendus, prov. once in Cic., qs. a god among orators, of a distinguished orator (opp. faenum esse), Cic. de Or. 2, 57.— Also food for the steeds of the gods:equos ambrosiae suco saturos,
Ov. M. 2, 120; 4, 215 (acc. to Hom. Il. 5, 368 and 369).—Transf.A.The unguent of the gods (so, ambrosia, Hom. Il. 14, 170;B.16, 670): ambrosiā cum dulci nectare mixtā Contigit os,
Ov. M. 14, 606:liquidum ambrosiae diffundit odorem,
Verg. G. 4, 415; id. A. 12, 419.—The name of several plants, esp. of the botrys or artemisia, Turkish mugwort: Choenopodium botrys, Linn.; Plin. 27, 4, 11, § 28.—Another plant of this name, Plin. 27, 8, 31, § 55.—C.An antidote to poison, Cels. 5, 23.2.Ambrŏsĭa, v. Ambrosie.
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