[2468] “Corona graminea.”
[2469] For a description of these various crowns, see B. xvi. c. 3.
[2470] Sometimes also, weeds, or wild flowers.
[2471] See Servius on the Æneid, B. viii. l. 128.
[2472] No doubt, the old English custom of delivering seisin by presenting a turf, originated in this.
[2473] See B. vii. c. 29.
[2474] See B. xvi. c. 5.
[2475] In the Samnite war. He died B.C. 340.
[2476] Titus Manlius Torquatus Imperiosus, consul A.U.C. 414. It was he who put his own son to death for engaging the enemy against orders.
[2477] Q. Fabius Maximus, surnamed Cunctator, for his skill in avoiding an engagement with Hannibal, and so wearing out the Carthaginian troops.