Bell notes that Demeter went through too much pain following Persephone's abduction and partial return to tolerate any adulterous behaviour against her daughter. Oppian writing that she was trampled to death is perhaps an allusion to the verb , minytho, meaning "to reduce". Orpheus wrote that Demeter, seeing the mint sad, hated it, and made it barren.Etymologicum Graecae Linguae Gudianum, Μίνθη. A small collection of versions of Minthe's story can be found in Greek in here.
Bell notes that Demeter went through too much pain following Persephone's abdu,ction and partial return to tolerate any adulterous beh,aviour against her daughter. Oppian writing that she was trampled to death is perhaps an allusion to the verb , minytho meaning "to reduce". Orpheus wrote that Demeter, seeing the mint sad hated it, and made it barren.Etymologicum Graecae Linguae Gudianum, Μίνθη. A small collection of versions of Minthe's story can be found in Greek in here.