A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 516
armour of tlie 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 iiung on the trunkand branches of an oak, cut to resemble thehuman frame, and either consecrated in a tem-ple (p.;/. lionudu.s,… … Trompe carrying projecting .\ngles; HouseXT Peiugueox (Dokdogne), Fr.ince. 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. Incour.se of time the idea jirevailed of makingsuch…
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