Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Serta

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SER'TA, plural; (στέμματα). A festoon, or long wreath of many flowers sewed together, and employed chiefly in decorating altars, temples, or the doorways of private houses upon occasions of festivity; whereas the corollae and coronae were more particularly intended to be worn as ornaments for the person; but this distinction is not always observed. (Plaut. As. iv. 1. 58. Virg. Aen. 1. 421. Cic. Tusc. iii. 18.) The illustration (Serta/1.1) exhibits a festoon of the kind described, which is carried by a young woman in a bas-relief, representing a marriage festivity, to decorate the doors of the bridal mansion; and the last illustration s. INFULATUS, p. 131., shows the manner of suspending it over the doorway of a house or temple.

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