CHAP. 4. (3.)—WHO WAS THE FIRST TO GIVE CHAPLETS WITH
LEAVES OF SILVER AND GOLD. LEMNISCI: WHO WAS THE FIRST
TO EMBOSS THEM.
Crassus Dives [Note] was the first who gave chaplets with artificial leaves of silver and gold, at the games celebrated by him.
To embellish these chaplets, and to confer additional honour
on them, lemnisci were added, in imitation of the Etruscan
chaplets, which ought properly to have none but lemnisci [Note]
made of gold. For a long period these lemnisci were destitute of ornament: [Note] P. Claudius Pulcher [Note] was the first who
taught us to emboss [Note] them, and added leaves of tinsel to the
laminæ [Note] of which the lemniscus was formed.
