Ground thyme, crocus, hyacinths,

And buds of helichryse,

Shoots of the vine, anthryscum too,

And lovely hemerocalles.

* * * * *

My head is likewise shaded

With evergreen melilotus;

And of its own accord there comes

The flowery cytisus.

33. Formerly the entrance of garlands and perfumes into the banqueting rooms, used to herald the approach of the second course, as we may learn from Nicostratus in his Pseudostigmatias, where, in the following lines, he says—