| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 21.1 | Plin. Nat. 21.2 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 21.3 |
The ancients used chaplets of diminutive size, called "struppi;" [Note] from which comes our name for a chaplet, "stro-
phiolum." Indeed, it was only by very slow degrees that this last word [Note] became generalized, as the chaplets that were used at sacrifices, or were granted as the reward of military valour, asserted their exclusive right to the name of "corona." As for garlands, when they came to be made of flowers, they received the name of "serta," from the verb "sero," [Note] or else from our word "series." [Note] The use [Note] of flowers for garlands is not so very ancient, among the Greeks even.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 21.1 | Plin. Nat. 21.2 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 21.3 |
