Lycurgus 22.1

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
Lycurgus 22.1
Quotation
τότε δὲ καὶ τοῖς νέοις τὰ σκληρότατα τῆς ἀγωγῆς ἐπανιέντες, οὐκ ἐκώλυον καλλωπίζεσθαι περὶ κόμην καὶ κόσμον ὅπλων καὶ ἱματίων, χαίροντες, ὥσπερ ἵπποις, γαυριῶσι καὶ φρυαττομένοις πρὸς τοὺς ἀγῶνας, διὸ κομῶντες εὐθὺς ἐκ τῆς τῶν ἐφήβων ἡλικίας, μάλιστα περὶ τοὺς κινδύνους ἐθεράπευον τὴν κόμην λιπαράν τε φαίνεσθαι καὶ διακεκριμένην, ἀπομνημονεύοντές τινα καὶ Λυκούργου λόγον περὶ τῆς κόμης, ὅτι τοὺς μὲν καλοὺς εὐπρεπεστέρους ποιεῖ, τοὺς δὲ αἰσχροὺς φοβερωτέρους.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Military: Arms and Armour
Visual Work: Clothing
Object/ Person Ornamented
Arms/ shields and clothing of Spartan men
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Embossing
Visual Work: Embroidery
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified; context suggests: perhaps embossing for shields and arms and embroidery for clothing
Item Identifier
A01834
Determination
Interpreted from context