Orations 24.53

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Literature: prose
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Orations 24.53
Quotation
οἱ δὲ τοὺς λῃστὰς ἐκεῖνοι καταδιώξαντες καὶ τὰ νεώρια κοσμήσαντες τοῖς ἐμβόλοις καὶ ταῖς μεγάλαις ἐκείναις τριήρεσιν, ἃς ἡμεῖς εἴδομεν πρὸ τοῦ σεισμοῦ, πρὸς θεῶν εἰ μὴ Τυρρηνοῖς μηδὲ τοῖς πλοίοις τοῖς λῃστικοῖς, ἀλλ᾽ αὐτοῖς κατὰ ναῦν ἐμάχοντο, ἆρ᾽ ἄν ποτε τῆς θαλάττης ἦρξαν, ἢ τοὺς κόσμους τούτους εἰσήγαγον εἰς τὴν πόλιν, ἢ φιλοτιμεῖσθαι τοῖς ἐξ αὑτῶν ἐπὶ τοῖς ἔργοις τούτοις κατέλιπον;
Part of Speech
Participle (active)
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecutre: Infrastructure
Object/ Person Ornamented
Docks at Rhodes
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Medium/a Ornamenting
Beaks seized from pirate triremes
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Rhodian naval genderals
Item Identifier
A02296
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