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being carried out to buridl. At other times not 

 even chaplets won at the games were worn indis- 

 criuiinately, (VI.) and on this matter extreniely 

 severe rules were enforced. In the second Punic 

 War L. Fulvius, a banker, who was said to have 

 looked out into the Forum from his veranda wearing 

 in the daytime a chaplet of roses, was on the au- 

 thority of the senate led away to prison, not being 

 released before the end of the war. P. Munatius 

 took a chaplet of flowei*s from a statue of M.irsyas and 

 placed it on his own head. Ordered by the Trium- 

 viri to be put in chains for this offence he appealed 

 to the tribunes of the people, who refused to inter- 

 vene. V^ery different was the custom at Athens, 

 where young revellers " in the forenoon would resurt 

 even to the schools of the philosophers. Among us 

 no other instance of this outrageous conduct has 

 taken place except that of JuHa, daughter of the 

 late Augustus, who in her night frolics phiced a 

 chaplet on the statue of Marsyas, as a letter of that 

 god * deplores. 



VII. Flowers as a distinction have been given by 

 the Roman people only to a Scipio. He was surnamed 

 Serapio because of his Hkeness to a pig-dealer of 

 that name. He died in his tribunate,<^ being high 

 in the esteem of the common people and worthy of 

 the family of the Africani, but not leaving enough 

 estate to pay for his funeral. So the people con- 

 tracted for his funeral, contributing their pence, and 

 scattered flowers from every point of vantage along 

 all the route. 



VIII. Already by that time chaplets were used to 

 honour the gods, the lares public and private, tombs 

 and spirits of the dead; the highest distinction was 



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