In Verrem, 2.4.5 (3)

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
In Verrem, 2.4.5 (3)
Quotation
Messanam ut quisque nostrum venerat, haec visere solebat; omnibus haec ad visendum patebant cotidie; domus erat non domino magis ornamento quam civitati.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
Gaius Heius
The city of Messana
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Building: Domestic Building
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Cultic: Building: Shrine
Cultic: Monument: Altar
Medium/a Ornamenting
House of Heius (more specifically, as discussed in an earlier passage, its shrine with altars and bronze and marble statues - a marble Cupid by Praxiteles, a bronze Hercules by Myron, and two bronze maidens by Polyclitus, called the Canephoroe - Basket-Bearers)
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Gaius Heius
Notes
Honour as well as beauty intended here.
Item Identifier
A00078
Determination
Derived directly from text