[1840] Fée makes the word “vocabulum” apply to “corona,” and not to “struppus;” but the passage will hardly admit of that rendering.
[1841] “To bind” or “join together.”
[1842] A “connected line,” from the verb “sero.”
[1843] By “quod,” Hardouin takes Pliny to mean, the use of the word σπαρτὸν, among the Greeks, corresponding with the Latin word “sertum.”
[1844] These chaplets, we learn from Festus, were called “pancarpiæ.” The olive, oak, laurel, and myrtle, were the trees first used for chaplets.
[1845] See B. xxxv. c. 40.
[1846] The “Chaplet-weaver.” See B. xxxv. c. 40.
[1847] B.C. 380.
[1848] From Athenæus, B. xv. c. 2, et seq., we learn that the Egyptian chaplets were made of ivy, narcissus, pomegranate blossoms, &c.
[1849] “Corolla,” being the diminutive of “corona.”