<head>Destruction of Art in Corinth</head>The incidents of the capture of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Corinth&groupId=493&placeId=928">Corinth</a> were melancholy. The soldiers cared nothing for the<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note33">The destruction of the works of art in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Corinth&groupId=493&placeId=928">Corinth</a>, September, B. C. 146.</note>works of art and the consecrated statues. I saw with my own eyes pictures thrown on the ground and soldiers playing dice on them; among them was a picture of Dionysus by Aristeides—in reference to which they say that the proverbial saying arose, "Nothing to the Dionysus,"—and the Hercules tortured by the shirt of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Deianeira&groupId=532&placeId=1003">Deianeira</a>. . . .
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