Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Stable, Stemma

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Stemma

（στέμμα).

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Properly a garland or wreath bound with fillets of wool and worn as a chaplet. (See Corona; Infula.)

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A long scroll decorated with garlands and bearing a list of the family names. It was hung upon the ancestral busts that stood in their cases or niches (aediculae） in the atrium of the Roman house. (See Imagines.) Whence

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a pedigree or family tree (Juv.viii. 1).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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