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FLORAL CEREMONIES. 
the ancient sacrifices, at which the priests also 
appeared crowned with flowers — 
“ Thus the gay victim with fresh garlands crowned. 
Pleased with the sacred pipe’s enlivening sound, 
Through gazing crowds in solemn state proceeds, 
And dressed in fatal pomp, magnificently bleeds.” 
Phillips. 
«< In the annual festivals of the Terminalia, the 
peasants were all crowned with garlands of 
flowers,” says Cicero , and from “ Irving’s An¬ 
tiquities,” we learn that (l 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 woolen 
fillets.” And this author further tells us, that 
“ in the triumphal processions of. Rome the 
streets were strewed with flowers, and the 
altars smdked with incense.” Let us now take 
a picture of one of these Roman triumphs 
speaking of the Conqueror, the poet says— 
He comes, and with a port so proud, 
As if ho had subdued the spacious world 
And all Sinope’s streets were filled with sush 
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