But here I want to know what this trefoil is; for there is a poem attributed to Demarete, which is called The Trefoil. And also, in the poem which is entitled The Good Men, Pherecrates or Strattis, whichever is the author, says—
And having bathed before the heat of day,
Some crown their head and some anoint their bodies.
And he speaks of thyme, and of cosmosandalum. And Cratinus, in his Effeminate Persons, says—
Joyful now I crown my head
With every kind of flower;
Λείρια, roses, κρίνα too,
And cosmosandala,
And violets, and fragrant thyme,
And spring anemones,