APPLE

fruit of Pyrus mal us, tree belonging to order Rosacez; originally wild (crab-a.) in Asia and Europe, now cultivated in over 2000 species in temperate countries for eating, cooking, and manufacture of cider (q.v.). Many other fruits, (e.g.) custard apple, pineapple, egg apple, have nothing but the name in common. (1) The ‘a. of Discord’ was a golden apple thrown on the table at an Olympian banquet by Discord, and contended for by Hera, Athene, and Aphrodite. Paris, of Troy, when called upon to make the award, gave it to Aphrodite, and thereupon incurred the wrath of the two other deities. (2) When Hippo three golden apples before her, and she, stopping to pick them up, lost the race, (2) The golden aoe of the Hesperides 4.0.) were guarded by a dragon, and the gathering of these by Hercules constitut-, ed his twelfth labour, (4) ‘A. of the eye,’ literary epithet referring to somet held in great regard. (5) ‘A. of Sodom, on Sea fruit, fair without, but full of shes, er. manufacturer and politician; introduced power-loom.