Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 586
merly said to be of vine-leaves (Rasche Lex. Num. vii. 1039), is now com-monly described as an oak-wreath; and such it might possibly be (Class. Rev. 1903 xvii.418 fig. 17). But our passage rather suggests that it is intended for the wreath of white-poplar sacred to the Rhodian Helios. Mr E. S. G.… … Fig. 365- little doubt that the leaves of the wreath are meant for white poplar and not for oak, asyou will see from the two enclosed casts; they (the leaves) are not drawn with any greatcare, but the essential difference between the oak and poplar (the pyramidical shape ofthe latter) seems to have…
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