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The regions that meritorious men acquire are full of honey and possessed of the splendour of gold or of a fire upon which clarified butter has been poured. Those regions also are likened to the navel of ambrosia. The meritorious person enjoys great felicity there. Death, decrepitude, and sorrow, are not there. The region for the sinful is hell.
I hadn't thought about it, but it is a pretty word, and it has come straight down from the Greek word for honey. He discovers works of art. Surprising pictures, glowing in color, are on the walls. These are cherubs rioting in health, smiling old men, benignant matrons, radiant maidens, all feasting on nectar and ambrosia.
"As for you, good Philemon," continued the elder traveller "and you, kind Baucis you, with your scanty means, have mingled so much heartfelt hospitality with your entertainment of the homeless stranger, that the milk became an inexhaustible fount of nectar, and the brown loaf and the honey were ambrosia.
"Perhaps," returned Euphrosyne, "the same remark applies to her as to Aurora the age for thoroughly enjoying riches is hardly arrived. You smile, Ambrosia! Well, we do not yet know your experiment, and you yourself do not know how it has answered. Take care that our turn for laughing at you does not soon come!" Julia was dressed at the end of the half-hour, but not sooner.
But she was too much in love with him to salt their ambrosia with common sense or suggest economy in their use of the nectar bottle. However, the gods attend to that, and she knew they would, and she let them.
And think not that the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian fields consisteth either in their asphodel, ambrosia, or nectar, as our old women here used to say; but in this, according to my judgment, that they wipe their tails with the neck of a goose, holding her head betwixt their legs, and such is the opinion of Master John of Scotland, alias Scotus.
He came one day with the book and begged me to read it, having discovered that my interest in Luther was not as living as it ought to be; so I took it out with me into the garden, because the dullest book takes on a certain saving grace if read out of doors, just as bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eaten under a tree.
He quickly cleared one of the trees on which there were two or three of the fruit, but to our chagrin they proved to be much decayed; the rinds partly opened by the birds, and their hearts half devoured. However, we quickly despatched them, and no ambrosia could have been more delicious.
But now follow me further, that I may set before thee the entertainment of strangers. Therewith the goddess spread a table with ambrosia and set it by him, and mixed the ruddy nectar. So the messenger, the slayer of Argos, did eat and drink.
I was very warm, and Halicarnassus said he was tired; so he went into a restaurant and ordered strawberries, that luscious fruit, quivering on the border-land of ambrosia and nectar. "Doubtless," says honest, quaint, delightful Isaac, and he never spoke a truer word, "doubtless God might have made a better berry than a strawberry, but doubtless God never did."
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