Ab urbe condita, 22.32.6

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
1st century BCE/ 1st century CE
1st century BCE
1st century CE
Location of Display
Reference
Ab urbe condita, 22.32.6
Quotation
aequum censuisse Neapolitanos, quod auri sibi cum ad templorum ornatum, tum ad subsidium fortunae, a maioribus relictum foret, eo iuvare populum Romanum
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
Temples of Neapolis, Italy
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Unspecified; context suggests: Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals
Visual Work: Vessel: Bowl
Visual Work: Figurine
Medium/a Ornamenting
Gold in forms unspecified; context suggest: figurines, vessels
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
The ancestors of the people of Neapolis left gold to them; this motivated them to bring forty golden bowls to Rome for their Treasury
Item Identifier
A00010
Determination
Interpreted from context