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Stemma

στέμμα).


1.

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


2.

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


3.

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

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