Ab urbe condita, 26.31.9

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, 26.31.9
Quotation
Ego, patres conscripti, Syracusas spoliatas si negaturus essem, numquam spoliis earum urbem Romam exornarem.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
Rome
Syracuse (previously)
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Silver
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Bronze
Visual Work: Furniture
Visual Work: Material: Textiles
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Vessel
Visual Work: Jewellery
Medium/a Ornamenting
Spoils of Syracuse. Silver and bronze objects, unspecified (from contexts, likely jewellery or vessels)
Fabrics and furniture
Statues (unspecified subjects, probably gods and heroes, famous citizens, etc)
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Item Identifier
A00016
Determination
Derived directly from text