Ab urbe condita, 25.40.1

Item

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, 25.40.1
Quotation
Marcellus captis Syracusis … ornamenta urbis, signa tabulas que, quibus abundabant Syracusae Romam devexit, hostium quidem illa spolia et parta belli iure
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
Rome
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Unspecified; context suggests: Military: Spoils: Unspecified
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Painting
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified; context suggests: Ornaments of Syracuse--its statues and paintings. Glossed as spoils of the enemy
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Item Identifier
A00011
Determination
Interpreted from context