Alexander 20.8

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Text Category
Literature: prose
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Alexander 20.8
Quotation
ὡς δὲ εἶδε μὲν ὅλκια καί κρωσσοὺς καί πυέλους καί ἀλαβάστρους, πάντα χρυσοῦ, ἠσκημένα περιττῶς, ὠδώδει δὲ θεσπέσιον οἷον ὑπὸ ἀρωμάτων καί μύρων ὁ οἶκος, ἐκ δὲ τούτου παρῆλθεν εἰς σκηνὴν ὕψει τε καί μεγέθει καί τῷ περὶ τὴν στρωμνὴν καί τραπέζας καί τὸ δεῖπνον αὐτοῦ κόσμῳ θαύματος ἀξίαν, διαβλέψας πρὸς τοὺς ἑταίρους, ‘τοῦτο ἦν, ὡς ἔοικεν,’ ἔφη, ‘τὸ βασιλεύειν.’
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Visual Work: Furniture
Object/ Person Ornamented
Tables and couch at a banquet
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Vessel: Basin
Visual Work: Vessel: Jug
Visual Work: Vessel: Chest
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Gold
Medium/a Ornamenting
Basins, pitchers, tubs, and caskets made of wrought gold, spices, unguents
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Dareius III
Item Identifier
A01821
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