Identifier: floralemblems00phil (find matches)
Title: Floral emblems
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Phillips, Henry, 1775-1838
Subjects: Flower language Flowers in literature Emblems
Publisher: London, Saunders and Otley
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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ed Mains a majoribus ;for Romulus having divided the people ofRome into two parts, majores and minores^whereof the younger were appointed to defendtheir country by strength, the elder by counsel. May, so called in the honour of one, andJune of the other, Uinc sua majores tribiicrc vocabula Maio,.funis a inienuni uonuuc dictus adesf. (hid. 44 FLORAL EMBLEMS. JUNE. * Child of the sun, refulgent summer comes.In pride of youth. Thompson. Now the air Is rich in fragrance ! fragrance exquisiteAs new mown hay ! Mrs. Robinson. A wreath of various grasses in flower, encom-passing a branch of strawberries, is presentedas our emblem of the month of June. Pea-cham dressed June in a mantle of dark grassgreen; upon his head a garland of bents,king-cups, and maidens hair ; in his left handan angle with a box of cantharides, in hisright the sign of cancer, upon his arm a basketof the fruits of the season; it hath the nameeither a Junvenibus, as observed in May, orof Junius Brutus. TloTal ZEniIbleiiis
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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 45 JULY. When now no more tli alternate twins are fird.And cancer reddens with the solar blaze ;Short is the doubtful empire of the night. Thompson. This cherry-cheeked month we picture inour emblems by a garland of purple thyme,enclosing a bunch of red cherries. July I would have drawn/ says Peacham, in a jacket of light yellow, eating cherries,with his face and bosom sun-burnt, on hishead a wreath of centaurie and wild thyme, asithe on his shoulder, and a bottle at his girdlecarrying the sign Leo. This month was call-ed July in honour of Julius Caesar, the dicta-tor, being before called Quintilis, or the fifthmonth ; for the Romans began with March. FLORAL E.\IBLEM.S. AUGUST. Before the ripend field the reapers stand,111 fair array. Thompson. This month, which was anciently called Sex-filis, from being the sixth from March, wasnamed August by the senate of Rome, in ho-nour of Augustus Csesar, who in this monthwas created consul, and triumphed thrice inRome. It was in

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