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the ancient sacrifices, at which the priests also 

 appeared crowned with flowers 



" Thus the gay victim with fresh garlands crowned, 

 Pleased with the sacred pipe's enlivening sound, 

 Through gazing crowds in .solemn state proceeds, 

 And dressed in fatal pomp, magnificently bleeds." 



PHILLIPS- 



" In the annual festivals of the Terminalia, the 

 peasants were all crowned with garlands of 

 flowers," says Cicero, and from " Irving's An- 

 tiquities," we learn that a sacrifices among the 

 Romans were of different kinds ; the place 

 erected for offerings was called ara or altare, 

 an altar ; it was erected with leaves and grass, 

 adorned -with flowers, and bound with woolen 

 fillets." And this author further tells us, that 

 in the triumphal processions of Rome the 

 streets were strewed with flowers, and the 

 altars smoked with incense." Let us now take 

 a picture of one of these Roman triumphs 

 speaking of the Conqueror, the poet says 



He comes, and with a> port so proud, 

 As if ho nad subdued the spacious world 

 And all Sinope's streets were filled with such 



