Note 202 — Chapter I · CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY[3]
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Codin., p. 100; it had been brought from Rome. I prefer this indigenous explanation to the surmise of Reiske (Const. Porph., op. cit., ii, p. 49), that it was here that the victors in the games received their crowns of laurel (Δάφνη):
Nay, lady, sit; if I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all bound up in alabaster, And you a statue, or, as Daphne was, Root-bound that fled Apollo. Milton’s Comus.