Crassus Dives1851 was the first who gave chaplets with artificial leaves of silver and gold, at the games celebrated by him. To embellish these chaplets, and to confer additional honour on them, lemnisci were added, in imitation of the Etruscan chaplets, which ought properly to have none but lemnisci1852 made of gold. For a long period these lemnisci were destitute of ornament:1853 P. Claudius Pulcher1854 was the first who taught us to emboss1855 them, and added leaves of tinsel to the laminæ1856 of which the lemniscus was formed.