Meaning of favus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. honeycomb
   declension-2, masculine
2. a hexagonal pavement stone
   declension-2, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“comede fīlī mī mel quia bonum est et favum dulcissimum gutturī tuō”

Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat. (trans. Douay-Rheims Bible)

“ut satyrī levisque senex tetigēre sapōrem, quaerēbant flāvōs per nemus omne favōs Since the satyrs and the bald-headed old man [Silenus] had tasted its flavor, they were searching for the golden yellow honeycombs through all the grove. (Note the poetic word play in the consonance and assonance of ‘‘flāvōs favōs.’’ For more honeyed mythology, see Liber, Dionysus, Silenus, and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.)”

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