Phoenissae, 505-508

Item

Text Category
Literature: verse
Century Range
Location of Display
Author
Seneca the Younger
Reference
Phoenissae, 505-508
Quotation
non te duxit in thalamos parens comitata primos nec sua festas manu ornavit aedes nec sacra laetas faces vitta revinxit.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure: Interior
Object/ Person Ornamented
Home of a groom (Polynices)
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified; context suggests garlands
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Iocasta (or rather, she did not adorn the house for marriage)
Notes
For a wedding
Item Identifier
A00259
Determination
Interpreted from context