Facta et dicta memorabilia, 2.4.6

Item

Text Category
Literature: prose See all items with this value
Century Range
1st century CE See all items with this value
Location of Display
Rome See all items with this value
Author
Valerius Maximus See all items with this value
Reference
Facta et dicta memorabilia, 2.4.6
Language
Latin See all items with this value
Quotation
Claudius Pulcher scaenam varietate colorum adumbravit, vacuis ante pictura tabulis extentam. quam totam argento C. Antonius, auro Petreius, ebore Q. Catulus praetexuit. versatilem fecerunt Luculli, argentatis choragiis P. Lentulus Spinther adornavit.
Part of Speech
Verb (compound) (active) See all items with this value
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Architectural Element See all items with this value
Architecture: Building: Civic Building See all items with this value
Object/ Person Ornamented
Scaenae frons of a theatre
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Silver See all items with this value
Medium/a Ornamenting
Silver stage properties
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Publius Lentulus Spinther (curule aedile)
Notes
In the first part of the passage, other additions to the scaenae are discussed - painting, ivory, a rotating platform, etc - but it is only the addition of silver by Spinther to which "adornavit" is applied.
Item Identifier
A00237
Determination
Derived directly from text
Item sets
1st century CE
Valerius Maximus
Architecture (Ornamented)
Civic Building
Architectural Element
Building
Material
Precious Metals
Silver