Speeches 4.25 (In Defence of Euxenippus)

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Text Category
Literature: prose
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Speeches 4.25 (In Defence of Euxenippus)
Quotation
ὡς οἷόν τε κάλλιστον καὶ τἆλλα πάντα τὰ ἀκόλουθα, καὶ κόσμον πολὺν καὶ πολυτελῆ τῇ θεῷ παρασκευάσαντες, καὶ θεωρίαν καὶ θυσίαν πολλῶν χρημάτων ἀποστείλαντες, ἐπεκοσμήσατε τὸ ἕδος τῆς Διώνης ἀξίως καὶ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν καὶ τῆς θεοῦ. ὑπὲρ τούτων ὑμῖν τὰ ἐγκλήματα ἦλθε παρ’ Ὀλυμπιάδος ἐν ταῖς ἐπιστολαῖς, ὡς ἡ χώρα εἴη ἡ Μολοττία [Note] αὑτῆς, ἐν ᾗ τὸ ἱερόν ἐστιν· οὔκουν προσήκειν ἡμᾶς τῶν ἐκεῖ οὐδὲ ἓν κινεῖν. ἐὰν μὲν τοίνυν τὰ περὶ τὴν φιάλην γεγονότα ἐν ἀδικήματι ψηφίσησθε εἶναι, τρόπον τινὰ καὶ ἡμῶν αὐτῶν καταγιγνώσκομεν ὡς τὰ ἐκεῖ οὐκ ὀρθῶς ἐπράξαμεν· ἐὰν δ’ ἐπὶ τοῦ γεγενημένου ἐῶμεν, τὰς τραγῳδίας αὐτῆς καὶ τὰς κατηγορίας ἀφῃρηκότες ἐσόμεθα. οὐ γὰρ δήπου Ὀλυμπιάδι μὲν τὰ Ἀθήνησιν ἱερὰ ἐπικοσμεῖν ἔξεστιν, ἡμῖν δὲ τὰ ἐν Δωδώνῃ οὐκ ἐξέσται, καὶ ταῦτα τοῦ θεοῦ προστάξαντος.
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Type of Thing Ornamented
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Sculpture: Deity
Cultic: Building: Shrine
Architecture: Building: Shrine
Object/ Person Ornamented
Statue of Dione at Dodona; shrines in Athens
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Jewellery
Visual Work: Clothing
Visual Work: Vessel
Cultic: Object: Votive Offerings
Medium/a Ornamenting
Statue of Dione (expensive finery - jewellery, robes)
Shrines (offerings - vessels, figurines, votives, food)
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Euxenippus (Dione statue)
Olympias (shrines)
Item Identifier
A02270
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Derived directly from text