In Verrem, 2.3.9 (4)

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
In Verrem, 2.3.9 (4)
Quotation
Verrem esse qui cum L. Mummio certet, ut plures hic sociorum urbes quam ille hostium spoliasse videatur, plures hic villas ornamentis fanorum quam ille fana spoliis hostium ornasse?
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
Roman villas
Roman temples
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Military: Spoils
Visual Work: Sculpture: Deity
Visual Work: Painting
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals
Visual Work: Vessel: Plate
Cultic: Object: Cultic Objects
Cultic: Object: Effigies/ Representations
Visual Work: Vessel: Cup
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Medium/a Ornamenting
Spoils of war, and spoils of unjust plunder. Details unspecified; context suggests sculpture, painting, cultic objects and representations, objects in precious metals including plates and dinnerware
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Gaius Verres
Lucius Mummius
Notes
From the context. Cicero notes that it is wrong that Verres is decorating more Roman villas with his stolen spoils than Mummius adorned temples with his spoils from actual 'legal' wars.
Item Identifier
A00076
Determination
Derived directly from text