In Verrem, 2.4.123 (55)

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
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Reference
In Verrem, 2.4.123 (55)
Quotation
Ac videte quanto taetrior hic tyrannus Syracusanis fuerit quam quisquam superiorum, quia, cum illi tamen ornarint templa deorum immortalium, hic etiam illorum monumenta atque ornamenta sustulit.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
Temples at Syracuse
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Painting: Panel Painting
Visual Work: Materials: Ivory
Visual Work: Materials: Precious Metals: Gold
Visual Work: Carving
Architecture: Architectural Element: Door
Military: Arms and Armour
Medium/a Ornamenting
ornaments of temples, unspecified; context suggests: Spoils of Syracuse and of the shrine of Minerva.
Panel paintings depicting King Agathocles and portraits of other kings and tyrants of Sicily
Doors wrought in ivory and gold, including a carved ivory Gorgon's face, golden knobs
Reed spears
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Previous governors of Sicily
Notes
From the wider context
Item Identifier
A00110
Determination
Interpreted from context