In Caecilium, 19 (5)

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
In Caecilium, 19 (5)
Quotation
“Quod auri, quod argenti, quod ornamentorum in meis urbibus, sedibus, delubris fuit, quod in una quaque re beneficio senatus populique Romani iuris habui, id mihi tu, C. Verres, eripuisti atque abstulisti;"
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Location: City
Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
The cities, abodes, and shrines of the island of Sicily
Subsequently the house of Verres
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Gold
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Silver
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Painting
Medium/a Ornamenting
Sculptures and paintings, and other precious objects, explicitly those of gold and silver by hendiadys (i.e. the golden door knobs of the shrine of Minerva at Syracuse, see In Verrem 2.4)
Notes
From the wider context of the Verrine speeches
Item Identifier
A00131
Determination
Derived directly from text