FLOItAL CEEErONTES. 
GO 
Antiquities,” we learn that “ sacrifices among 
the Romans were of different kinds ; the place 
erected for offerings was called ara or altare, 
an altar ; it was erected with leaves and grass, 
adorned with flowers, and bound with wool- 
len fillets.” And this author further tells us, 
that “ in the triumphal processions of Rome 
the streets were strewed with flowers, and the 
altars smoked with incense.” Let us now 
take a picture of one of these Roman tri- 
umphs ; speaking of the Conqueror, the poet 
says,— 
“ He comes, and with a port so proud, 
As if he had subdued the spacious world ; 
And all Sinope’s Btreets were filled with such 
A glut of people, you would think some god 
Had conquered in their cause, and them thus 
ranked, 
That he might make his entrance on their heads ! 
While from the scaffolds, windows, tops of houses, 
Arc cast such gaudy showers of gnrlands down, 
That e’en the crowd appear like conquerors, 
And the whole city seems like one vast meadow 
Set all with flowers os a clear heaven with stars.” 
Nathaniel Lee. 
