[330]One is crowned for that which another is tormented: Ille crucem sceleris precium tulit, hic diadema; made a knight, a lord, an earl, a great duke, (as Agrippa notes) for that which another should have hung in gibbets, as a terror to the rest, "et tamen alter, Si fecisset idem, caderet sub judice morum.

Like a bad actor (so Plutarch compares such men in a tragedy, diadema fert, at vox non auditur:

Quod purpura non potest, saccus potest, saith Chrysostom; the king of Nineveh's sackcloth and ashes "did that which his purple robes and crown could not effect;" Quod diadema non potuit, cinis perfecit.

Non diadema aspicias, sed vitam afflictione refertam, non catervas satellitum, sed curarum multitudinem. 1789.

"The subject of Mr. Rolt's experiments has been the garden spider, Aranea diadema, the webs of which, in autumn, are so conspicuous on the surface of shrubs and in other similar situations.

S. diadema, n. sp. 29.

2. S. diadema, n. sp. Cells elongate, external side nearly straight, vibraculum sublateral, very prominent.