This identification of moly with mandrake is probably based on Homer's remark that moly is 'hard to dig.
Now that we have brought mandragora and moly into connection with the ordinary magical superstitions of savage peoples, let us see what is made of the subject by another method.
The black root and white flower of molyare quite unlike the yellow flower and white fleshy root ascribed by Pliny to mandrake.
The Scholiast adds that moly caused death to the person who dragged it out of the ground.
Apuleius Barbarus may have lived about four centuries after our era, and he says that 'wild rue was calledmoly by the Cappadocians.
Thus there would be a distinct analogy between Homeric moly and English 'herb of grace.
Now, as moly is a name in use among the gods, Mr. Brown thinks 'we may fairly examine the hypothesis of a foreign origin of the term.
The herb Molyis but the patience to endure, whether we like it or no.
My purpose here is to speculate a little upon what the herb Moly can be, how it can be found and used.
Odysseus and Kirke were sun and moon here is a good starting-point for the theory that the moly was stellar.
The story of Hermes' giving Ulysses the Moly read in Odyssey X.
Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig; howbeit with the gods all things are possible.
Safe thou art if thou but bear The least leaf of moly rare.
But this our age another world hath found, From whence an herb of heavenly power is brought; Moly is not so sovereign for a wound, Nor hath nepenthe so great wonders wrought.
The plant molygrows in the United States as well as in Europe.
But this our age another world hath found, From whence an hearbe of heavenly power is brought: Moly is not soe soveraigne for a wound Nor hath Nepenth[e] so great wonders wrought.
Homer[261] of Moly and Nepenthe singes: Moly, the gods most soveraigne hearbe divine.
If the moly were not mandragoras there is nothing else known to modern botany that it could be, unless it were rue, with which some scholars have sought to identify it, but not very successfully.
The learned author of Pseudosia Epidemica, or Vulgar Errors, at any rate, was clearly of opinion that moly and mandragoras were one and the same.
Various treatises have appeared on the subject, in one of which the Moly is thought to be identified with the Lotus.
Hermes presented to Ulysses the magical Moly wherewith to nullify the effects of the potions and spells of the enchantress Circe, who was well acquainted with all sorts of magical herbs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
