Crowns
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
circlets · crowns · leaves of the crowns
in the texts
Against Androtion
Honorific dedications that commemorated achievements, gratitude, and civic merit.
They have robbed the Goddess of her crowns.
You all, I suppose, used to see the words written under the circlets of the crowns:
Not only is he lost to shame when money is in question, but he is so dull-witted that he cannot see that crowns are a symbol of merit, but saucers and the like only of wealth;
Against Timocrates
Gold honorific dedications whose destruction erases public memory and donor honor.
They have robbed the Goddess of her crowns.
You all, I suppose, used to see the words written under the circlets of the crowns:
But in dealing with the crowns that he was to break up, he left out that very proper regulation;