In Verrem, 2.4.6-7 (3)

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
In Verrem, 2.4.6-7 (3)
Quotation
immo vero modo ac plane paulo ante vidimus, qui forum et basilicas non spoliis provinciarum sed ornamentis amicorum, commodis hospitum, non furtis nocentium, ornarent; qui tamen signa atque ornamenta sua cuique reddebant, non ablata ex urbibus sociorum atque amicorum, quadridui causa, per simulationem aedilitatis, domum deinde atque ad suas villas auferebant.
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Civic Building
Architecture: Public Space: Forum
Object/ Person Ornamented
Basilicas/ colonnades in Rome and the Roman Forum
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Painting
Cultic: Monument: Altar
Cultic: Object: Cultic Objects
Cultic: Object: Effigies/ Representations
Medium/a Ornamenting
The ornaments of their friends - statues specified, but other ornaments unspecified; context suggests: paintings, altars, cultic objects
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Gaius Verres
His associates
Notes
From the wider context. Hendiadys
Item Identifier
A00080
Determination
Derived directly from text