Lotophăgi
（
Αωτοφάγοι—i. e. lotus-eaters). Homer, in the
Odyssey, represents Odysseus as coming in his wanderings to a coast inhabited
by a people who fed upon a fruit called
lotus, the taste of which was so
delicious that every one who ate it lost all wish to return to his native country. Afterwards,
in historical times, the Greeks found that the people on the north coast of Africa, between
the Syrtes, used to a great extent, as an article of food, the fruit of a plant which they
identified with the lotus of Homer, and they called these people Lotophagi (
Herod.iv. 177). They carried on a commercial intercourse with Egypt and
with the interior of Africa by the very same car
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Lotus Capital. (Goodyear.)
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avan routes which are used to the present day. The legend in the
Odyssey suggested Tennyson's exquisite poem,
The Lotus Eaters.
