Histories 5.59.8

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
Histories 5.59.8
Quotation
παραπλησίως δὲ καὶ τὸ σύμπαν τῆς πόλεως κύτος τείχεσι πολυτελέσιν ἠσφάλισται, κεκόσμηται δὲ καὶ ναοῖς καὶ ταῖς τῶν οἰκοδομημάτων κατασκευαῖς ἐκπρεπῶς.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
Seleucia Pieria
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Infrastructure
Architecture: Building: Civic Building
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Medium/a Ornamenting
Expensive walls, temples, other elaborate buildings
Item Identifier
A02250
Determination
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