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- This prompts Burlingame to name their species " Lotophagi veneris " the lotus eaters of Venus.
- The Arachnians analyze the protagonists'saliva to produce food perfectly catered to their tastes : both of these facets allude to the mythological Lotophagi.
- The lotus tree is mentioned in Homer's " Odyssey " as bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness, and which was said to be the only food of an island people called the Lotophagi or Lotus-eaters.
- The earliest European / Asian Minor references to a vegetarian diet occur in Homer ( " Odyssey " 9, 82 104 ) and Herodotus ( 4, 177 ), who mention the Lotophagi ( Lotus-eaters ), an indigenous people on the North African coast, who according to Herodotus lived on nothing but the fruits of a plant called lotus.