Orestes 607-611

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Text Category
Literature: poetry
Century Range
Precise Date or Date Range
408
Location of Display
Reference
Orestes 607-611
Quotation
ἐπεὶ θρασύνῃ κοὐχ ὑποστέλλῃ λόγῳ, οὕτω δ᾽ ἀμείβῃ μ᾽ ὥστε μ᾽ ἀλγῆσαι φρένα, μᾶλλόν μ᾽ ἀνάξεις ἐπὶ σὸν ἐξελθεῖν φόνον: καλὸν πάρεργον δ᾽ αὐτὸ θήσομαι πόνων ὧν εἵνεκ᾽ ἦλθον θυγατρὶ κοσμήσων τάφον.
Part of Speech
Participle (active)
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Monument: Funerary: Tomb
Object/ Person Ornamented
Tomb of Clytaemnestra
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Sculpture: Relief
Architecture: Architectural Element
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified; context suggests: the architectural structure of the tomb, any sculpture applied/ around
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Tyndareus
Item Identifier
A02104
Determination
Interpreted from context