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Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

Note 5 — THE CORNICE

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This begs the question whether λευκόϊον does not properly mean snowflake, or some such flower. Violets in Greece, however, were often used for crowns: ΐοστέφανος is the epithet of Homer for Aphrodite, and of Aristophanes for Athens.

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