De domo sua, 112 (43)

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
De domo sua, 112 (43)
Quotation
haec ultrix adflictae civitatis, rei publicae spoliis ornabitur?
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
The goddess Liberty
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Statue
Military: Spoils
Cultic: Object: Effigies/ Representations
Medium/a Ornamenting
Statue despoiled from a courtesan's tomb in Tanagra
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Appius Clodius Pulcher, aedile
Notes
Cicero laments that the goddess Liberty will be adorned with the spoils of war - that is, the stolen statue
Item Identifier
A00046