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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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Rain of food

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lime1, and some sorts of reeds2. On the other hand, certain insects,
Such as the aphides, secrete a sugary liquid, which is often spread
111 a shiny layer over the upper surface of leaves3. Both saccharine
substances are known to us as 'honey-dew4,' to our neighbours as
mellat* or Honigthau*.

^ Vigfusson—y. York Powell Corpus Poelicum Boreale Oxford 1883 ii. 635, J. Grimm
*'ltonic Mythology trans. J. S. Stallybrass London 1883 ii. 796, E. H. Meyer Germanische
y nologie Berlin 1891 p. 81, F. Eckstein in the Handioorterbuch des deutschen Aber-

S'aubens iv. 200.

Theophr.yrczj: 190 Wimmer (quoted supra p. 498 n. 2) rrjs <pt\vpas.
]lea^ore than fifty years ago my brothers and I, as boys in our father's garden, used in the
bo summer to creep under the green translucent shade of some over-hanging lime-
ughs, and I well remember tasting the sweet sticky liquid with which the leaves were
coated.

^en> epist. 12. 2. 4 aiunt inveniri apud Indos mel in arundinum foliis, quod aut ros
Tpc C°e" aut 'Psms arundinis humor dulcis et pinguior gignit, Philostr. her. 20. 43
Ui\1°'"Tl ^ ^SC' ai '-^/J-a^0"") ™ Ppt'PV ydXaKTi re (popfidduv iirirwv Kal fpbaov (OJpfolS, rj
<Si&'T°~ ^Kr,v ^ T0"s &°>"1Kas ™" TOTap.Civ ifdra, Ail. de not. an. 15. 7 Serai i] 'lvbwv yij
Ta?s - >")0S '1^'T' fypVi Ka' ZTl t^O' V Hpaaiwv X"/>a> oirep oiv epirlirTov rais Thais Kal
IJ-h j-"* ^e'w" Ka\dp.uv Kop.au vopds rots poval Kal ro?s TrpofiaTOis 7rap^xel Savpaards, Kal to.

\ et7riarai Tjdlffrijv Tqvoe iffriacnv (pd\iara yap evravda oi vopeis ayovviv aura, £vda
dp^^ ^ov y dpb<Tos 7) y\vKeia KddrjraL iretrovua), avdeffTiq de Kal rd £tpa tovs vopias'
'^\\*0X'rTt *^a^ 7rePLy^KLffT0v yd\a, Kal ov oeovrai dvapt^ai a&rtp p.£\i, 07rep ovv bpuHTLV
gUitjnue!' ^ut I'lin. nat. hist. 11. 14 melliginem (sc. faciunt apes) e lacrimis arborum, quae
exuj .. ParMnt, salicis, ulmi, harundinis suco, cummi, resina is dealing with vegetable
26* s> not supposed dew. And anon, peripl. mar. Erythr. 14 (Geogr. Gr. min. i.
Me\t T() er) ffaprtferai 5e <tw/t)0ws

., Ka^dfiivov to Xeybfxevov craKxapi refers to sugar-cane

^QVfn' ^ydeI(ker The Royal Natural History'London 1896 vi. 198 ' The sticky substance
*S' 'n niost10116^ ^£W' w^'cn 's on-en spread m a shiny layer over the upper surface of leaves,
on the cases> nothing but the liquid dropped by the crowds of plant-lice living above

Thep S'deof other leaves-'
°r Sacch • '^^"pBdia Brilannica1* London 1929 xi. 715 'The exudation of a nectar-like
excretionrille ^u'^ 's a function exclusively of flowers but may be found as a secretion or
ltlar>na, ;s °n a" Pai"ts of various plants which occur above ground. A sweet material,
are founcj pro<luced by leaves and stems of a species of ash, and nectar-secreting glands
an°- calyc °n ^eaves> petioles, stipules, bracts and even on the outer surfaces of corollas

yflo^erSa 'ari0USpknt

species. The origin of nectar-secretion manifested specially
regards tjjg1*1011^ tne several parts of plants has been carefully considered by Darwin, who
SaP--..The sSaccnarine matter in nectar as a waste product of chemical changes in the

°^ lowers Secret'°ns or excretions of nectar from parts of plants other than the interior

' ^othe^ C°mmonly called plant honey-dews.
nPec'es of SUcJ"lp°rtant source of sweet liquid for honey-bees is the excretions of many
0rtrial plantC "lg msects, these being called insect honey-dews to distinguish them from
lered by b^ecretlons- Various orders of Hemiptera form this material which is eagerly
0j. xi. j j^ut °nly when no supplies of nectar are available....1
ofVariuUs trees H°NEY DEW> a secretion consisting of exudations of sugar from the leaves
SsP' but ma Utlider °ertain atm«spheric conditions. It is usually the result of a superfluity
0 ^grande ^ ^ ^ producecl by 'he puncture of certain insects (Aphides, q.v.)....'
tha ^"'w'"^'' Paris (1898) xxiii. 956 s.v.' mikllat, miell£b ou miellure.'
U ^'v°n bl«w- " Grimm Deutsches Wbrterbuch Leipzig 1877 iv. 2. 1793 s.v. 'Honig-
la"lausen herriihrt').
 
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