Facta et dicta memorabilia, 3.7.ext.5

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, 3.7.ext.5
Language
Latin See all items with this value
Quotation
mirifica deinde procuratione abiectissimum negotium pro amplissimo ornamento expetendum Thebis reddidit.
Part of Speech
Noun See all items with this value
Type of Thing Ornamented
Person: Politician See all items with this value
Location: City See all items with this value
Object/ Person Ornamented
The man laying the pavement/ possibly in a punning reference, the city of Thebes
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Abstract: Office See all items with this value
Medium/a Ornamenting
A most spendid honour
but also possibly an implicit punning idea on the idea of the work being undertaken "for the sake of" the pavement as a "far-spreading ornament" (as "amplissimus" conveys both "most splendid" and "widest"). This works particularly well if "operam … speciosissimum" in the previous line is also understood to imply a reference to the finished product of the paving as a "most splendid/beautiful work" rather than the much less usual "most honourable" undertaking, which translators prefer.
Notes
*Where I previously framed this as a simpler reference to the paving, I have subsequently accepted that this is not the case. (cp. Barham, 2018; Barham, 2015)
Item Identifier
A00239
Determination
Derived directly from text
Item sets
1st century CE
Valerius Maximus
City
Person (Ornamented)
Location
Abstract
Politician/ Leader