Ἀνθέμων

[Referring to] roses. Aristophanes: "would that some Eros would take and unite you and me, just like the one in the picture", he says. And again: "who has a wreath of flowers".¹ That is, of roses. Zeuxis the painter drew in the temple of Aphrodite a most youthful Eros, encircled with roses.²