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The Triumph of Flora
Doubtful knight's spur, Consolida ajacis; Shrubby germander, Teucrium fruticans. linkKing Teucer: son of the river Scamander and nymph Idaea. Before the arrival of Dardanus, the land that would come to be called Dardania. Batea, his daughter and the only child, was married to Dardanus. King Teucer was considered the first figure to bear the bloodline of the Trojans.
Teucer, son of King Telamon of Salamis: During the Trojan War, Teucer was mainly a great archer, who loosed his shafts from behind the giant shield of his half-brother Ajax the Great.
Because of his half-brother's suicide, Teucer stood trial before his father, where he was found guilty of negligence for not bringing his dead half-brother's body or his arms back with him. He was disowned by his father, wasn't allowed back on Salamis Island, and set out to find a new home. His departing words were introduced in the seventh ode of the first book of the Roman poet Horace's Odes, in which he exhorts his companions to "nil desperandum", "despair in no way", and announces "cras ingens iterabimus aequor", "tomorrow we shall set out upon the vast ocean". This speech has been given a wider applicability in relation to the theme of voyages of discovery, also found in the Ulysses of Tennyson.
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Delphinium staphisagria L.: Stavesacre, Lice-Bane. The dark-colored, wrinkled seeds of D. staphisagria are characteristically quite large (~5x6 mm), and it is likely that the species name, which translates to "wild raisin" (classical Greek: σταφις αγρια) is based on their appearance.
The use of herbal preparations made from D. staphisagria seeds for destroying body-lice (/laus/, 虱子) has been recognized since antiquity. The Greek physician Dioscorides and the Roman historian Pliny are most often mentioned in this context.
Literary Reference: The Lady of Larkspur Lotion: one-act play (1946 and 1953) by Tennessee Williams.
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