Literature: prose See all items with this value

1st century BCE See all items with this value

Rome See all items with this value

Cicero See all items with this value

In Verrem, 2.4.123 (55)

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Et Marcellus qui, si Syracusas cepisset, duo templa se Romae dedicaturum voverat, is id quod erat aedificaturus iis rebus ornare quas ceperat noluit;

Verb (active) See all items with this value

Architecture: Building: Temple See all items with this value

Cultic: Building: Temple See all items with this value

Votive temples to Honour and Virtue (Honos and Virtus), promised by Marcellus

Military: Spoils See all items with this value

Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue See all items with this value

Visual Work: Painting: Panel Painting See all items with this value

Visual Work: Materials: Ivory See all items with this value

Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Gold See all items with this value

Visual Work: Carving See all items with this value

Architecture: Architectural Element: Door See all items with this value

Military: Arms and Armour See all items with this value

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

From the context. Cicero says here that Marcellus did NOT want to adorn his temples with the spoils he COULD have used to adorn them.

A00108

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Cicero

1st century BCE

Architecture (Ornamented)

Sculpture (Ornamenting)

Painting

Building

Temple

Cultic (Ornamented)

Temple

Architecture (Ornamenting)

Material

Precious Metals

Gold

Architectural Element

Military (Ornamenting)

Arms and Armour

Panel Paintings

Carving/ Engraving

Ivory

Statue

Statue - Ornamenting - Definite