The fig tree
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
a large fig tree · fig-tree · the fig tree
in the texts
Odyssey
A large fig tree growing above Charybdis, to which Odysseus clings for survival on his second pass through the whirlpool.
[A large fig tree in full leaf grows upon it], and under it lies the sucking whirlpool of Charybdis.
She was then sucking down the salt sea water, but I was carried aloft toward the fig tree, which I caught hold of and clung on to like a bat.
Meditations
A fig-tree used analogically to represent something that necessarily produces according to its nature.
and he who would not have it so would have the fig-tree yield no juice.