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parergon

parergon · n

an extra ornament

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Where it lives

De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

părergon — Lewis & Short

părergon, i, n., = pa/rergon,

I an extra ornament: adjecerit parvulas naves longas in iis, quae pictores parerga appellant, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 101; Vitr. 9, 9; Inscr. Grut. 59, 2; 77, 3 al.—Plur.: Părerga, ōn, the title of a work by Attius, Non. 61, 24.

In the wild

parerga Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.8.5

Where it came from

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