The crown · Atlas

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Crowns2 mentions

Against Androtion (Greek) · Against Timocrates (Greek)

You all, I suppose, used to see the words written under the circlets of the crowns:

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Against AndrotionClassical · Greek

Honorific dedications that commemorated achievements, gratitude, and civic merit.

You all, I suppose, used to see the words written under the circlets of the crowns:

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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;

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but now they have vanished with the destruction of the crowns, and the saucers which that lewd fellow has had made in their place bear the inscription, Made by direction of Androtion.

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Against TimocratesClassical · Greek

Gold honorific dedications whose destruction erases public memory and donor honor.

but, by alleging that the leaves of the crowns were rotten with age and falling off,—as though they were violet-leaves or rose-leaves, not leaves made of gold—he persuaded you to melt them down.

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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;

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but now they have vanished with the destruction of the crowns, and the saucers which that lewd fellow has had made in their place bear the inscription Made by direction of Androtion.

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al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāqMedieval · Arabic

A wrought crown, named among the furthest ends of the hammer's work.

for when he knows the furthest perfection of the hammer, I mean the making of a crown or a signet ring or a bracelet, he directs the road and the beating out of the hard body towards that.

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De CoronaLate Antiquity · Latin

The laurel or floral wreath worn on the head, at issue throughout the treatise as an object whose Christian legitimacy is disputed.

For we are urged, from the fellowship of natural discipline, to turn to the propriety of Christian discipline, now wholly to be defended through the other kinds of crowns too, which seem provided for other uses, as built of other substances—lest, because they do not consist of flowers, whose use nature has marked, like this very military laurel, they be believed not to admit the interdiction of th …

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And therefore this first prescribes that a crown does not suit the head.

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For it belongs to the dead too to be thus crowned—or because they too straightway become idols, both by the garb and the rite of consecration, which among us is a second idolatry.

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