Laurel
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
laurel · chaplet · the crown · the military crown
in the texts
Hymn 26 To Dionysus
Plant used with ivy to wreath Dionysus during his wandering.
But when the goddesses had brought him up, a god oft hymned, then began he to wander continually through the woody coombes, thickly wreathed with ivy and laurel.
De Corona
The laurel or floral wreath worn on the head, at issue throughout the treatise as an object whose Christian legitimacy is disputed.
that the men of God ought not to be crowned.
And therefore this first prescribes that a crown does not suit the head.
" And, I think, He says, "Happy are they that mourn," not "that are crowned.