De legibus, 2.65 (26)

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
De legibus, 2.65 (26)
Quotation
… “ne quis sepulchrum faceret operosius quam quod decem homines effecerint triduo”; neque id opere tectorio exornari
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Monument: Funerary: tomb
Object/ Person Ornamented
Tombs (of Solon's Athens, 6th century BC)
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Architectural Element
Visual Work: Painting: Wall Painting
Medium/a Ornamenting
Wall painting (typically fresco). Translators of the passage sometimes prefer "stucco", but wall painting without any moulding is much more widely encountered in the archaeological remains. There is further a wider general consensus (met in architectural dictionaries, etc) that "opus tectorium" signifies wall painting
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Athenians
Item Identifier
A00147
Determination
Derived directly from text