46 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



AUGUST. 



" Before the ripen'd field the reapers stand, 

 In fair array." 



Thompson. 



This month, which was anciently called Sex- 

 tills, from being the sixth from March, was 

 named August by the senate of Rome, in ho- 

 nour of Augustus Caesar, who in this month 

 was created consul, and triumphed thrice in 

 Rome. It was in this month also that he sub- 

 jugated Egypt to the Roman empire, and 

 terminated the civil wars which had so much 

 convulsed these warlike people. 



As a symbol of this month we weave a 

 wreath of wheat, barley, and oats, encircling 

 a branch of purple plums. 



August is portrayed by Peacham in " form 



