A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 516
of the enemy, erected as a memoriid of809 TROPHY victory. (See Momimint, Historical Sketch.)In (ireek and Latin lands it consisted primi-tively of the actual arms hung on the trunkand branches of an oak, cut to resemble thehuman irame, and either consecrateil in a tem-ple {t.i/. Romulus, Spolia… … TrOMPK. <ARRYING PROJKITINU A.NOI.ES ; HOUSE AT Pehioueux (Dordognki, Fr.vnce.in the Peloponnesus, such as tlii ti-ophies ofZeus Tropaios and Polydeukes at Siiarta, ofHerakles, near Sellasia, and those oAer theCorinthians, anil over Lajihaes at Argos. Incour.se of time the idea prevailed of…
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