De vita Caesarum 3: Tiberius, 26.1

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Text Category
Literature: prose
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Reference
De vita Caesarum 3: Tiberius, 26.1
Quotation
… etiam statuas atque imagines nisi permittente se poni; permisitque ea sola condicione, ne inter simulacra deorum sed inter ornamenta aedium ponerentur.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
Temples
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Medium/a Ornamenting
Statues ("ornaments" here contrasted with the cult statues, the "images of the gods"). Portrait statues and busts of Tiberius to be set up amongst these "ornaments"
Notes
But cp. Cicero, In Verrem, 2.1.58 (22); 2.4.83 (38); 2.4.93 (43), though 2.4.18 (8) makes a similar distinction.
Item Identifier
A00310
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