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In fact, there are some things that smell pleasant to some, but smell foully to others. The rose, what could have a more pleasant odor? It has its name from ozein to smell. Hence Plutarch in book 3 of his Symposiacs, question 2: The rose is so named, no doubt, because it exhales much scent through its odor. And indeed, the rose is called Rhodon by the Greeks for the reason that it exhales much odor. Hence Horatius, book 1, Ode 5:

And regarding L. Aelius Verus, Spartianus says in his biography: He made a bed for four people to recline upon, enclosed on all sides by a fine net, and filled it with rose petals, from which the white part had been removed, and covered himself with a sheet made of lilies, anointed with Persian scents. And yet, some could not bear the scent of roses, however pleasant. It might not be beside the point to present examples (for it seems worth the effort) in the authors' own words. Pierius Valerianus provides the first two in book 8 of his Hieroglyphics, where he discusses the scarab beetle, speaking thus: There are, he says, very many in the human race who cannot bear the breath of roses, and among them are men of great value. For when I was in Rome, I saw Oliverius Caraffa

perhaps Scaliger had this very Cardinal in mind in Exercitationes 153, section 10, writing thus: The Cardinal