Cypress

Hellenic religion

• Cypress appears in Hellenic religion.

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses seats the cypress among Cyparissus’ transformation into the mourning tree. A named cypress in that poem, not cedar as the Gilgamesh timber already walked and not a cemetery dump alone.

  from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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• Cypress is used in Medicine.

  Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists cypress (kyparissos) nuts and leaves among astringent drugs. A named cypress in that handbook, not Cyparissus metamorphosis already walked and not a cemetery-tree dump alone.

  from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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• Cypress is associated with Perseverance.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, St. Ambrose makes the enduring Cypress an image of the Just Man that never loses its leaves in wind or storm, and so set forth perseverance in virtue — the cypress marks that perseverance.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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• Cypress is associated with Immortality.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Cypress placed in cemeteries for mourning and death also keeps an allusion to the hope of Immortality — the cypress holds that immortality hope.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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• Cypress is associated with Death.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, in later times the Cypress was adopted as an emblem of mourning and death from the dark colour of its foliage — the cypress marks that death.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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• Cypress is historically related to Cedar.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, while the cypress and pine yield resin, from the cedar is produced an oil called cedar-oil used to preserve books and other things — cypress sits beside that cedar among lasting building woods.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Cypress is historically related to Elm.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, cypress has not the efficacy of the elm among building timbers, yet both are named among woods suited to construction — cypress is weighed against that elm.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Cypress is historically related to Resin.

  In Vitruvius Ten Books on Architecture, cypress and pine yield resin while cedar yields cedar-oil - cypress is named as a resin-bearing timber.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Cypress is historically related to Box.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, vault furring strips are preferably cypress, and the ties that hold them may be box among juniper, olive, and oak.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Mugwort is used in Cypress.

  In Culpeper’s English Physician, syrup of mugwort includes cypress among the ounce-roots — cypress is bruised into the mugwort infusion before the honey syrup.

  from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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• Juniper is associated with Cypress.

  In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, the juniper cypress is named in the gum-resin shelf that does not grow in Africa — juniper sits with that cypress naming.

  from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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• Pine is historically related to Cypress.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, cypress and pine both hold much moisture and warp in buildings, yet their bitter sap keeps them from rotting to a great age — pine stands with that cypress as lasting building timber.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Fir is historically related to Cypress.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, where fir and clear fir are lacking, the builder may evade the lack by using cypress, poplar, elm, or pine — fir is substituted with that cypress.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Vine is historically related to Cypress.

  In Twining Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, plate 87 trees treats the vine with the palm and the cypress as early Christian vegetable symbols.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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• Olive is historically related to Cypress.

  In Vitruvius Ten Books on Architecture, vaulting ties that neither decay nor dampness can spoil may be box, juniper, olive, oak, or cypress.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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Roman religion

• Cypress appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid seats cypress among funerary and mourning timber of Trojan burial speech. A named cypress in that epic, not Ovid’s Cyparissus restated and not a cemetery-checklist dump.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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