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

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Ambrosia

（ἀμβροσία). A name given to anything that confers immortality.

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1.

The food of the gods, whose drink was nectar (q.v.). Doves are said by Homer to bring ambrosia to Zeus from the far West.

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2.

The ointment of the gods, which preserved even the dead from decay.

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3.

The food of the gods' horses.