Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Lotus

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Lotus

（λωτός). The lotus.

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A plant known to botanists as the Zizyphus lotus, or jujube. See Lotophagi.

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A species of waterlily (Nymphaea lotus) found on the Nile and regarded by the ancient Egyptians as sacred. It appears as a symbol of the Egyptian deities and is very prominent in works of art, especially in the capitals of columns, the prows of vessels, etc. See Goodyear, A Grammar of the Lotus (N. Y. 1892).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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