You should not wear a beard thus well perfumed,
And 'tis a shame for you, of such high birth,
To be reproachèd as the son of your belly,
When you might rather be call'd your father's son.
Since, then, you are sated not only with the heads of glaucus, but also with that evergreen herb, which that Anthedonian Deity[122] ate, and became immortal, give us an answer now about the subject of discussion, that we may not think that when you are dead, you will be metamorphosed, as the divine Plato has described in his treatise on the Soul. For he says that those who are addicted to gluttony, and insolence, and drunkenness, and who are restrained by no modesty, may naturally become transformed into the race of asses, and similar animals.
24. And as he still appeared to be in doubt;—Let us now, said Ulpian, go on to another kind of garland, which is called the στρούθιος; which Asclepiades mentions when he quotes the following passage, out of the Female Garland-Sellers of Eubulus—
O happy woman, in your little house
To have a στρούθιος . . . . [123]
GARLANDS.
And this garland is made of the flower called στρούθιον (soap-wort), which is mentioned by Theophrastus, in the sixth book of his Natural History, in these words—"The iris also blooms in the summer, and so does the flower called στρούθιον, which is a very pretty flower to the eye, but destitute of scent." Galene of Smyrna also speaks of the same flower, under the name of στρύθιον.