Note that Moly — MILTON’S MINOR POEMS.

636. The story of Hermes’ giving Ulysses the Moly read in Odyssey X. “Therewith the slayer of Argos gave me the plant that he had plucked from the ground, and he showed me the growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods [109] call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig; howbeit with the gods all things are possible.”