"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."

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I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.

— Ptolemy