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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Reference
Fragment 45q line 15
Quotation
ἐκ δὴ τῶνδε τῶν ποικίλων κεράτων πίνειν Ἰνδοὺς ἀκούω, καὶ ταῦτα οὐ πάντας, ἀλλὰ τοὺς τῶν Ἰνδῶν κρατίστους, ἐκ διαστημάτων αὐτοῖς χρυσὸν περιχέαντας, οἱονεὶ ψελίοις τισὶ κοσμήσαντας βραχίονα ὡραῖον ἀγάλματος
Part of Speech
Participle (active)
Type of Thing Ornamented
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Object/ Person Ornamented
The arms of beautiful statues
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Jewellery
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Gold
Medium/a Ornamenting
Gold bracelets
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Powerful Indian warriors
Notes
This is a metaphor for the ways in which Indian people would gild the horns of mythical unicorns. Preserved in Aelian De Natura Animalium 4.52
Item Identifier
A02372
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Derived directly from text