Pro Sulla, 88

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
Pro Sulla, 88
Quotation
Domus erit, credo, exornata, aperientur maiorum imagines, ipse ornatum ac vestitum pristinum recuperabit.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure: Interior
Person: Politician
Object/ Person Ornamented
Publius Cornelius Sulla and his house
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Dress: Insignia
Visual Work: Portrait
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Medium/a Ornamenting
The house will be decorated with the imagines (wax masks or busts) of Sulla's ancestors, and he himself will wear aristocratic dress and insignia again
Notes
The construction of the sentence highlights the importance of the imagines as ornament
Item Identifier
A00143
Determination
Derived directly from text