Fig (Ficus) Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Fig (Ficus)


Close by a rock, of less enormous height, Breaks the wild waves, and forms a dangerous strait; Full on its crown, a fig’s green branches rise, And shoot a leafy forest to the skies. Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XII. L. 125. Pope’s trans.	1
So counsel’d he, and both together went Into the thickest wood; there soon they chose The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar’d shade High overarch’d, and echoing walks between. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. IX. L. 1,099.	2