human
The lines connecting the descents in a pedigree, from the garlands of flowers round the Imagines set up in the halls (v., 19) and porticoes (vi., 163) of the nobiles; which were joined to one another by festoons, so that the descent from father to son could be readily traced. Cf. Pers., iii., 28.
gpt
Stemmate quod Tusco ramum millesime ducis.
human
What boots it on the lineal tree to trace Through many a branch the founders of our race.