Aster amellus Aster amellus Aster amellus, the European Michaelmas-daisy, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus "Aster", belonging to the Asteraceae family. In the language of flowers, the Michaelmas-daisy symbolizes a farewell or a departure. The genus name ("Aster") comes from the Greek and means "star-shaped flower." The specific name ("amellus") is first used in the Georgics (Book IV, 271-280), a poem of the Latin poet Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC - 19 BC), but the etymology is obscure and uncertain. "Aster amellus" reaches on average a height of . The stem is erect and branched, the leaves are dark green.
Lucius Afranius (poet) any of the quoted fragments of Afranius, proposed to translate the sentence "if only he hadn't polluted his plots with disreputable love affairs (conducted) by boys", something which Quintilian perhaps thought unsuited to the moralising tone of Roman comedies. Afranius wrote many comedies. The titles of forty-two of his plays are still preserved, along with associated fragments and quotations: Lucius Afranius (poet) Lucius Afranius was an ancient Roman comic poet, who lived at the beginning of the 1st century BC. Afranius' comedies described Roman scenes and manners (the genre called "comoediae togatae") and the subjects were mostly taken from the