Ward, James, 1851-1927 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 82
the Acanthus spinosa, orthe prickly variety ; the Romans preferred the Acanthusmollis, or the soft-leaved and more cultivated kind. Amore conventional sort, called the olive, from a resem-blance of its tines or subdivisions to the olive-leaf, hasbeen used in capitals of the columns in the temple… … mouldings with it, and any available space in theirbuildings with the same infelicity that marked theircharacter in other ways, all tending to a great love ofshow ; the arch of Titus, for instance, is overdone withdecoration. The more modern type of acanthus used onmajolica plates and painted…
Decoration and ornament
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