

10 THE ROSE. 
term with Roman lovers. Homer has adorned 
the shield of Achilles, and the helmet of Hector 
with roses. Among the Greeks it was customary 
to leave bequests for the maintenance of rose 
gardens over the grave of the testator, and at 
Toreallo, near Venice, an inscription may still 
be seen, which shows that the fashion was 
adopted in Italy. In Turkey, a stone rose is 
often sculptured above the graves of unmarried 
women. A charming bas-relief on the tomb of 
Madame de la Live, who died at the age of 
twenty-one, represents Time mowing a Rose with 
his seythe. 
According to Indian mythology, Pagodastri, 
one of the wives of Vishnu, was found in a rose. 
Zoroaster is said to have made a rose-tree spring 
out of the earth and bud and bloom in the 
presence of Darius, who had called upon him 
to perform a miracle. In one of the books at- 
tributed to Solomon, eternal wisdom is compared 
to rose-trees at Jericho. Princess Noumahal, the 
most lovely lady in the harem of the Great 
Mogul, had a canal filled with rose-water, and 
- rowed about in it with her august consort, the 


