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Plutarch, Roman Questions, 37
nan Why is it that of all the things dedicated to the gods it is the custom to allow only spoils of war to disintegrate with the passage of time, and not to move them beforehand That is, to move them away before they fell to pieces; for the ancients used to clear out their temples periodically. nor repair them? Is it in order that men may believe that their repute deserts them at the same time with the obliteration of their early memorials, and may ever seek to bring in some fresh reminder of valour? Or is it rather that, as time makes dim the memorials of their dissension with their enemies, it would be invidious and malicious to restore and renew them? Nor among the Greeks, either, do they that first erected a trophy of stone or of bronze AS did the Boeotians after Leuctra: Cicero, De Inventione, ii. 23 (69); Cf. Diodorus, xiii. 24. 5-6. Of course this means substituting for the impromptu suit of armour, set on a stake, a permanent replica; but memorials of battles had been popular for many years before this time. Cf. Moralia, 401 c-d. stand in good repute.
nan Why is it that of all the things dedicated to the gods it is the custom to allow only spoils of war to disintegrate with the passage of time, and not to move them beforehand nor repair them? Is it in order that men may believe that their repute deserts them at the same time with the obliteration of their early memorials, and may ever seek to bring in some fresh reminder of valour? Or is it rather that, as time makes dim the memorials of their dissension with their enemies, it would be invidious and malicious to restore and renew them? Nor among the Greeks, either, do they that first erected a trophy of stone or of bronze stand in good repute.

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caryatids,function in de architectura	Oksanish (2019) 75
ciceromarcus tullius cicero	Oksanish (2019) 75
civil war	Oksanish (2019) 75
diodorus siculus	Oksanish (2019) 75
leuctra	Oksanish (2019) 75
nicolaus of syracuse	Oksanish (2019) 75
sparta	Oksanish (2019) 75
trophies'	Oksanish (2019) 75