Pliny the Elder

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  • Historia Naturalis, 37.73 (19)

    Pliny the Elder
    Iuba auctor est smaragdum quam chloran vocent in Arabia aedificiorum ornamentis includi et lapidem quem alabastriten Aegyptii vocent

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Naturalis, 36.189 (64)

    Pliny the Elder
    Agrippa certe in thermis quas Romae fecit figlinum opus encausto pinxit in calidis, reliqua albario adornavit, non dubie vitreas facturus camaras, si prius inventum id fuisset aut a parietibus scaenae, ut diximus, Scauri pervenisset in camaras.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Naturalis, 36.97 (22)

    Pliny the Elder
    cetera eius operis ornamenta plurium librorum instar optinent, nihil ad specimen naturae pertinentia.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Naturalis, 36.46 (5)

    Pliny the Elder
    dicit ... regias quoque domus, cum lautissime, praeter aes, aurum, electrum, argentum ebore tantum adornans.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Naturalis, 36.36 (4)

    Pliny the Elder
    Ex honore apparet in magna auctoritate habitum Lysiae opus quod in Palatio super arcum divus Augustus honori Octavi patris sui dicavit in aedicula columnis adornata, id est quadriga currusque et Apollo ac Diana ex uno lapide.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Naturalis, 35.173 (49)

    Pliny the Elder
    Lacedaemone quidem latericiis parietibus excisum opus tectorium propter excellentiam picturae ligneis formis inclusum Romam deportavere in aedilitate ad comitium exornandum Murena et Varro.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Naturalis, 35.124 (40)

    Pliny the Elder
    idem et lacunaria primus pingere instituit, nec camaras ante eum taliter adornari mos fuit;

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Naturalis, 35.5 (2)

    Pliny the Elder
    iidem palaestrae athletarum imaginibus et ceromata sua exornant.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Naturalis, 34.17 (9)

    Pliny the Elder
    … et in omnium municipiorum foris statuae ornamentum esse coepere propagarique memoria hominum et honores legendi aevo basibus inscribi, ne in sepulcris tantum legerentur.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Naturalis, 29.8 (5)

    Pliny the Elder
    par et fratri eius merces a Claudio Caesare infusa est, censusque, quamquam exhausti operibus Neapoli exornata, heredi H͞S͞ c͞c͞c͞ reliquere

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Naturalis, 17.6 (1)

    Pliny the Elder
    … iam columnas vi Hymettii marmoris aedilitatis gratia ad scenam ornandam advectas in atrio eius domus statuerat, cum in publico nondum essent ullae marmoreae: tam recens est opulentia!

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Historia Naturalis, 7.34 (3)

    Pliny the Elder
    Pompeius Magnus in ornamentis theatri mirabiles fama posuit effigies ob id diligentius magnorum artificum ingeniis elaboratas, inter quas legitur Eutychis a viginti liberis rogo inlata Trallibus enixa xxx partus, Alcippe elephantum

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome