116 Aster History; NICANDER 
Lines 66-57 read * as follows : 
mas Of tes 7 Shévecov fj Gatépa Qurt:Lovta 
Onshac etvodrocae Oe@y napaxd sake ayx0ts— 
We may render these lines and their context lines 66-70, as 
follows : 
Whoe’er indeed you may be that may gather f the luminous aster, 
Or pluck the helenium, place them on the roadside shrines of the gods, 
Yea, even on the images wreathe them, and that when first you behold them ; 
Pluck again and again these enchantments beautiful, and‘pluck the chrysanthemums, 
And lilies, and lay them as garlands on the tombs of the weary at rest 
The whole concluding passage, lines 66-72, was thus repro- 
duced in Latin by Gorraeus, translator of Nicander, in 1557: 
Quisque vero aut helenium aut astera splendentem 
colligis, triviis deorum adjice aediculis 
aut ipsis simulacris, quum primum conspexeris ; 
saepe pulcra placamenta carpens, ut bene, 
et lilia, quae in cippis marcescant defunctorum, 
et gerontopogonem, et tortiles cyclamines, 
et sauram, quae inferi corona dicitur hevsilst 
Against the commonly received reference of the detépa huriloved 
of the above passage to the Aster Amellus of Linnaeus, some 
tp raise two objections : . 
. That a more conspicuous flower than Aster Amellus should 
be cones as an offering to the gods. But this objection when _ 
examined, resolves itself instead into an affirmative argument, for 
Virgil distinctly reiterates the use of Aster Amellus for wreathing 
Png Re Rae of it in his 4th —— : 
death may roam among the flowers again before they die: ‘‘ Good Charos, halt in the — 
_. or halt by some cool fountain, so that the tle children may go an gather 
The love of flowers is still very strong among the Greeks; one of their moder 
myrologies or songs of lamentation for the dead ee 
ae Round all the world God planted pinks and pomegranate flowers 
8 folk songs in the Epidorpion of Lebékos’ Sstiactien speak of flower sitet flower : 
| ling the air, with rose and basil, cay rdv duapalu, etc (Rodd, Customs wp fy 
lore of Modern ern Greece, 212, 285, e 
+ 
basis see KAUOVTIOD ; literally, on the memorial columns of those who have 
wearied i into r 
