Cymae vs Cymas - What's the difference?
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is that cymae is while cymas is .As nouns the difference between cymae and cymas
is that cymae is while cymas is .cymae
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- Acanthus blossoms, drying like immortelles, “bloom continually” (Hellanicus, ap.'' Athen. XV, 680 a). Therefore carved acanthus garlands adorn the Erechtheum, while the plant is carved on cymae , stelae-acroteria (Conze, ''Attische Grabreliefs'', pl. clxv) and antefixes (Lycian Payava Tomb), and is sketched from life on white Athenian lecythi (''Brit. Mus. Coll. pl. xiv), which, conventionalized, it constantly encircles.