☷ All XXXVII booksEnter the Living Codex ↗

LIBER XXII · CAPUT 3

THE GRASS CROWN: HOW RARELY IT HAS BEEN AWARDED

THE GRASS CROWN: HOW RARELY IT HAS BEEN AWARDED. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
THE GRASS CROWN: HOW RARELY IT HAS BEEN AWARDED · EDITORIAL PLATE XXII.3 · modern editorial plate
THE GRASS CROWN: HOW RARELY IT HAS BEEN AWARDED. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Corona quidem nulla fuit graminea nobilior in maiestate populi terrarum principis praemiisque gloriae. gemmatae et aureae, vallares, murales, rostratae, civicae, triumphales post hanc fuere suntque cunctae magno intervallo magnaque differentia. ceteras omnes singuli, et duces ipsi imperatoresque, militibus aut aliquando collegis dedere, decrevit in triumphis senatus cura belli solutus et populus otiosus,

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

Of all the crowns with which, in the days of its majesty, the all-sovereign people, the ruler of the earth, recompensed the valour of its citizens, there was none attended with higher glory than the crown of grass. The crowns bedecked with gems of gold, the vallar, mural, rostrate, civic, and triumphal crowns, were, all of them, inferior to this: great, indeed, was the difference between them, and far in the background were they thrown by it. As to all the rest, a single individual could confer them, a general or commander on his soldiers for instance, or, as on some occasions, on his colleague: the senate, too, exempt from the cares and anxieties of war, and the people in the enjoyment of repose, could award them, together with the honours of a triumph.