A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ropriated to a particular proceed to enumerate these and their proper-ties, including in the same detail an account of thecorresponding ones, where any, in Greece. I. Corona Obsidionalis. Among the honorarycrowns bestowed by the Romans for militaryachievements, the most difficult of attainment, andthe one which conferred the highest honour, wasthe corona obsidionalis, presented by a beleagueredarmy after its liberation to the general who broke upthe siege. It was made of grass, or weeds andwild flowers (Plin. H. N. xxii. 7), thence cal
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ropriated to a particular proceed to enumerate these and their proper-ties, including in the same detail an account of thecorresponding ones, where any, in Greece. I. Corona Obsidionalis. Among the honorarycrowns bestowed by the Romans for militaryachievements, the most difficult of attainment, andthe one which conferred the highest honour, wasthe corona obsidionalis, presented by a beleagueredarmy after its liberation to the general who broke upthe siege. It was made of grass, or weeds andwild flowers (Plin. H. N. xxii. 7), thence calledcorona graminea (Plin. H. N. xxii. 4), and grami-nea obsidionalis (Liv. vii. 37), gathered from thespot on which the beleaguered army had beenenclosed (Plin. /. c. ; Aul. Gell. v. 6 ; Festus,s. v. Obsidionalis) ; in allusion to a custom of theearly ages, in which the vanquished party in a con-test of strength or agility plucked a handful of grassfrom the meadow where the struggle took place,and gave it to his opponent as a token of II. Corona Civica, the second in honour andimportance (Plin. H. N. xvi. 3), was presented tothe soldier who had preserved the life of a Romancitizen in battle (Aul. Gell. v. 6), and thereforeaccompanied with the inscription Ob eivem servatum(Senec. Clem. i. 26). It was originally made ofthe ilex, afterwards of the aesculus, and finally ofthe quercus (Plin. H. N. xvi. 5), three^ differentsorts of oak, the reason for which choice is ex-plained by Plutarch (Quaest. Rom. p. 151, ). It is represented in the next woodcut.
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