A corolla is an ancient headdress in the form of a small circlet or crown. [1] Usually it has ceremonial significance and represents victory or authority.
A corolla is an ancient headdress in the form of a small circlet or crown. [1] Usually it has ceremonial significance and represents victory or authority.
The term corolla and/or corollæ appears in a chapter title in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia : "Who invented the art of making garlands: When they first received the name of 'corollæ,' and for what reason." [2]
In ancient times, chaplets made from branches and twigs of trees were worn by victors in sacred contests: According to Pliny, P. Claudius Pulcher [3] introduced winter chaplets for the time at which flowers and plant matter are not available, made of thin laminæ of horn stained various colors. [2]
These winter chaplets were known there as "corollæ" (the diminutive of corona, a crown), a name Pliny says was given them to express the "remarkable delicacy of their texture".
Later, these head dresses were made of thin plates of copper, gilt or silvered, and were called "corollaria", [2] as introduced by Crassus Dives as a way to confer a greater honor when receiving them. [3]
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Book 12, chapt. 39 —THE TREE CALLED BRATUS.
Hence it is, that they import from the country of the Elymæi the wood of a tree called bratus, which is similar in appearance to a spreading cypress. Its branches are of a whitish colour, and the wood, while burning, emits a pleasant odour; it is highly spoken of by Claudius Cæsar, in his History, for its marvellous properties. He states that the Parthians sprinkle the leaves of it in their drink, that its smell closely resembles that of the cedar, and that the smoke of it is efficacious in counteracting the effects of smoke emitted by other wood. This tree grows in the countries that lie beyond the Pasitigris, in the territory of the city of Sittaca, upon Mount Zagrus.
