Noctes Atticae, 13.25.9

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Author
Reference
Noctes Atticae, 13.25.9
Quotation
“Quod auri, quod argenti, quod ornamentorum in meis urbibus, sedibus, delubris fuit.”
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Location: City
Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure
Architecture: Building: Shrine
Cultic: Building: Shrine
Object/ Person Ornamented
The cities ,houses, and shrines of Sicily, and later the house of Verres
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Gold
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Silver
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Painting
Architecture: Architectural Element
Visual Work: Vessel
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified; context (from Cicero) suggests: sculptures, paintings, fine tablewares (ceramic or metal), architectural elements such as doors and appendages. Potentially explicitly ornaments of gold and silver by hendiadys
Notes
Quoting Cicero, In Caecilium, 19 (5) (in a discussion of hendiadys, and similar effects). Loeb interprets as "jewels" but jewels are not specifically listed.
Item Identifier
A00319
Determination
Interpreted from context