statunculum

Definitiones

(Nomen)

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“et ne me putetis nesapium esse, valde bene scio⟳, unde primum Corinthea nata sint. cum Ilium captum est, Hannibal, homo vafer et magnus stelio, omnes statuas aeneas et aureas et argenteas in unum rogum congessit et eas incendit; factae sunt in unum aera miscellanea. ita ex hac massa fabri sustulerunt et fecerunt catilla et paropsides statuncula. sic Corinthea nata sunt, ex omnibus in unum, nec hoc nec illud.”

1913 translation by Michael Heseltine Do not imagine that I am an ignoramus. I know perfectly well how Corinthian plate was first brought into the world. At the fall of Ilium, Hannibal, a trickster and a great knave, collected all the sculptures, bronze, gold, and silver, into a single pile, and set light to them. They all melted into one amalgam of bronze. The workmen took bits out of this lump and made plates and entree dishes and statuettes. That is how Corinthian metal was born, from all sorts lumped together, neither one kind nor the other.

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