Milk, flesh, blood, butter, oil and water

Meaning

Family.

Mercury’s catalogue says that the worker obtains each of these from him. The words combine bodily and nourishing substances with historical preparation language inside a lament. The source does not separately identify every item by composition, and the list should not be treated as a set of ordinary food products. Its cumulative force is to ask what further service could reasonably be demanded. This family heading collects separately attested forms rather than claiming a continuous source phrase.