A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 509
arms andarmour of the enemy, erected as a memorial of869 TROPHY victory. (See Monument, Historical Sketch.)In Greek and Latin lands it consisted primi-tively of the actual arms hung on the trunkand branches of an oak, cut to resemble thehuman frame, and either consecrated in a tem-ple (e.ij.… … TrO.MPE C-iRRYIXG PROJECTING .-VNGLES ; HoUSE AT Perigueux (Dokdogne), Fr.vnce.in the Peloponnesus, such as the trophies ofZeus Tropaios and Polydeukes at Sparta, ofHerakles, near Sellasia, and those over theCorinthians, and over Laphaes at Argos. Incourse of time the idea prevailed of makingsuch…
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