36 ASTER HISTORY 
ASTERS BROUGHT TO SHRINES AND TEMPLES 
Gather the asters ; place them on the roadside shrines of the gods, 
Yea even on the images wreathe them and that when first you behold them, 
dpéwac, eivodiowws OeGv TapaxaB Bare onxoic 
i abvtoic Bperaecowv, ate tporiorav idwvrat, Nicander. 
Often the altars of the gods are festooned with its woven gar- _ 
lands, 
Saepe deum nexis ornatae torquibus arae.— V. 
(At the Argive Heraeum] they offer the plant to Hera and 
twine its leaves into wreaths for her. 
tH "Hoa kai abtiy dépovot, cai ard TOY ObAAav aiti¢ oreddvouc TAEKOVOLY, 
Pausanias. 
[By some it became identified with] the plant Argemon, which 
Minerva discovered.—Fiiny. 
Asters laid on the tomb, or on the memorial stones of departed 
heroes. 
Gather the aster and helenium, . 
uck again these gecelaaitilie beautiful, and pluck the yee 
And lilies, and Hoa them as garlands on the tombs of the weary at rest, 
oxphaaw énepbivorta xapovtwy,—Nicander, 
ASTER IN PasToraAL LIFE 
Shepherds know them—Husbandmen know it, it is easily found 
by the searcher—agricolae facilis quaerentibus herba.—V. : 
Shepherds gather it—pastores legunt.— V. 
It grows in wild places and is found by the shepherds of the 
flocks *—evptoxsraz 0& xapa Boaxotc zpofdrwy, D. (interpolation ?) 
The shepherds understand it best.— Apuleius Platonicus. 
It is best known to shepherds, pastoribus maxime videtur— 
Ortus Sanitatis, etc. 
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* Growing among the shepherds, where, as one of their modern Greek folksongs 
sings, 
** Night is black on the mountains ; 
Sequestered virtue dwells.”’ 
