Show customs of the the ancients in order to enjoy the scent of roses at meals had an abundance of the frag fragrant petals rained down upon the guests Hello gabalus in his carried the matter so far that the cloud of blossoms he ordered shaken down over one of his banquets actually suffocated some of his friends the romans during their meals reclined on cushions stuffed with rose leaves or made a couch of the leaves leave 8 themselves the floor too was strewn with the lovely blossoms cleopatra at an enormous expense procured roses tor for a feast which she prepared for anthony they were laid two cubits cubias thick on the floor of the banquet room and nets net a were then spread over the fragrant bed to give an elastic footing |