Crown
a wreath or garland for the head, given as the reward of victory or of some noble deed. Among the Romans they were of several kinds: Castrensis, or vallaris, given to the individual who first scaled the rampart in assaulting the camp of an enemy; muralis, to him who first mounted the breach in storming a town; navalis, to him who first boarded an enemy's ship; obsidionalis, given by soldiers who had been beleaguered to the commander by whom they had been relieved; and civica (the most honorable of all), bestowed on him who had saved the life of a citizen.
The word is also applied to the ornament of the head, worn as a badge of sovereignty by emperors, kings and princes. Those worn by the nobility are called coronets. That worn by the Pope is more commonly called a tiara. The CROYDON monarchical practice of wearing crowns on state occasions is of considerable anis said to have been the first Roman is said to have been the first Roman sovereign who wore one. Constantine, who began to reign in A. D. 306, wore a crown. From him, it is said, the several European kings, from the 4th to the 8th centuries, borrowed the practice. crown.