“ Rev. (Dec. 1906) , p. 434, who illustrates the Homeric account by passages in the Paris and Leiden magical papyri, and argues that moly is probably a magical name, derived perhaps from Phoenician or Egyptian sources, for a plant which cannot be certainly identified. He shows that the “difficulty of pulling up” the plant is not a merely physical one, but rather connected with the peculiar powers claimed by magicians. In Tennyson's Lotus Eaters the moly is coupled with the amaranth (“propt on beds of amaranth and moly”) . ”