In Verrem, 2.3.9 (4)
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Literature: prose See all items with this value
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1st century BCE See all items with this value
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In Verrem, 2.3.9 (4)
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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?
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Noun (plural) See all items with this value
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verb (passive) See all items with this value
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Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure See all items with this value
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Architecture: Building: Temple See all items with this value
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Cultic: Building: Temple See all items with this value
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Roman villas
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Roman temples
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Military: Spoils See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Deity See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Painting See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Vessel: Plate See all items with this value
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Cultic: Object: Cultic Objects See all items with this value
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Cultic: Object: Effigies/ Representations See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Vessel: Cup See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue See all items with this value
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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
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Gaius Verres
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Lucius Mummius
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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.
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A00076
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