. Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors. he manner of adorning trophies, was hanging up all sorts ofarms taken from the enemy, according to Euripides ^ : •T^e-teiiit t^^6iren HcttTtu^iei)) i^avTa ruv To^lfAiOtv, AU soi-ts of anns, that frotn the foe he took,He hung about the trophy which he raisd. Hence also Juvenal ^, speaking of the Roman triumphal arches: Jiellorum exuvicc, truncis nffixa tropais Lorica,
. Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors. he manner of adorning trophies, was hanging up all sorts ofarms taken from the enemy, according to Euripides ^ : •T^e-teiiit t^^6iren HcttTtu^iei)) i^avTa ruv To^lfAiOtv, AU soi-ts of anns, that frotn the foe he took,He hung about the trophy which he raisd. Hence also Juvenal ^, speaking of the Roman triumphal arches: Jiellorum exuvicc, truncis nffixa tropais Lorica, etfracta de casside buccida pendens, lCt curtum temonejugu7n, victceque triremis Aplustrc. • The spoils of war brought to Feretrian Jovc, An empty coat of armour hung above The conqurors chariot, and in triumph bornc, A streamer from a boarded galley torn, A chap-fairn beaver loosely hanging by The cloven helm. Drysen. To these they usually added the names of the god they were de- 2 Plutarchus Institut. Laconic. Parallclis, Phumutus. Idem Marcelio, * l*bavorinis. b Phavorinus. f Cassandra, v. 1328. Aristophanis Scholiastes Pluto, S Ilcraclid. v. 786, d Pausonios Laconicis, Pluturchus ^ Satir. x. v, 133. li ^. EJJnhur.,h hj J^ou, SMuy ^ hV8. O/ thc Mililari/ Jjairs of GreecC. 11:; dicatcd to, of llic conqiiciors also, and of those overcomc by iheniwitli an account of ali the spoils, and other remarkable occurrcn-ces in the war: this inscription vvas called l7rif^x(pii, or frtf^xfiftx^and was frequently engraved, whencc Lucian saith e7r} ru r^oTexUifKoXx^xi sometimes vvritten vvith ink, whence Odiryades, theJLaceda^nionian, just surviving his victory over the Argians, caus-cd a trophy to be erected, upon which, being supported by hisspear, hc inscribed vvith his own blood, instead of hik, Att T^o- iTxm^ik) . The spoils were hung upon the trunk of a tree; the olive wasirequently put to this use, being the emblem of peace, which isone of ihe consequen
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