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Facta et dicta memorabilia, 8.14.2

Valerius Maximus

Similiter honoratus animus erga poetam Accium D. Bruti, suis temporibus clari ducis, exstitit, cuius familiari cultu et prompta laudatione delectatus versibus templorum aditus, quae ex manubiis consecraverat, adornavit.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
Facta et dicta memorabilia, 7.6.4

Valerius Maximus

...senatus consulto aurea atque argentea templorum ornamenta, ne militibus stipendia deessent, conflata sunt

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
Facta et dicta memorabilia, 6.3.1c

Valerius Maximus

… a Q. Catulo Cimbricis spoliis adornata est.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
Facta et dicta memorabilia, 5.1.7

Valerius Maximus

eos victoriae maximos fructus ratus, dis ornamenta templorum, hominibus [regibus] sanguinem suum restituere.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
Facta et dicta memorabilia, 5.1.6

Valerius Maximus

expugnata enim Carthagine circa civitates Siciliae litteras misit, ut ornamenta templorum suorum a Poenis rapta per legatos recuperarent inque pristinis sedibus reponenda curarent.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
Facta et dicta memorabilia, 2.10.3

Valerius Maximus

… lecti illius frontem Macedonicis triumphis fuisse adornatam ...

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
Facta et dicta memorabilia, 2.4.6

Valerius Maximus

Claudius Pulcher scaenam varietate colorum adumbravit, vacuis ante pictura tabulis extentam. quam totam argento C. Antonius, auro Petreius, ebore Q. Catulus praetexuit. versatilem fecerunt Luculli, argentatis choragiis P. Lentulus Spinther adornavit.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
Historiae Romanae, 1.11.3

Velleius Paterculus

quique hanc turmam statuarum equestrium, quae frontem aedium spectant, hodieque maximum ornamentum eius loci, ex Macedonia detulit.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
Controversiae, 10.5.14

Seneca the Elder

Laedunt rem publicam qui aliquid illi auferunt, non qui adiciunt, qui diruunt templa, non qui ornant.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
Controversiae, 10.5.10

Seneca the Elder

Si videtur tibi, istis muneribus aram Misericordiae orna.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
Controversiae, 2.1.6

Seneca the Elder

Ego in domum vestram intrabo tamquam ego vos eiecerim? ego ornamenta vestra occupabo …

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
Controversiae, 1.8.5

Seneca the Elder

... hic impetus, hic ardor animi domum tuam trinis hostium spoliis adornavit ...

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century CE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 7.5.4

Vitruvius

quemadmodum enim potest calamus vere sustinere tectum aut candelabrum ornamenta fastigii …

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 7.5.5

Vitruvius

Etenim etiam Trallibus cum Apaturius Alabandius eleganti manu finxisset scaenam in minusculo theatro, quod ecclesiasterion apud eos vocitatur, in eaque fecisset columnas, signa, centauros sustinentes epistylia, tholorum rotunda tecta, fastigiorum prominentes versuras, coronasque capitibus leoninis ornatas, quae omnia stillicidiorum e tectis habent rationem, praeterea supra ea nihilominus episcenium, in qua tholi, pronai, semifastigia omnisque tecti varius picturis fuerat ornatus ...

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 7.5.2

Vitruvius

... ambulationibus vero propter spatia longitudinis varietatibus topiorum ornarent a certis locorum proprietatibus imagines exprimentes; pinguntur enim portus, promunturia, litora, flumina, fontes, euripi, fana, luci, montes, pecora, pastores.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 7.4.4

Vitruvius

Tricliniis hibernis non est utilis compositione nec melographia nec camerarum coronario opere subtilis ornatus, quod ea et ab ignis fumo et ab luminum crebris fuliginibus conrumpuntur.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 7.2.2

Vitruvius

Tunc autem machinis comparatis camerarum dispositiones in conclavibus expediantur, nisi lacunariis ea fuerint ornata.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 7.pref.16

Vitruvius

Nam quattuor locis sunt aedium sacrarum marmoreis operibus ornatae dispositiones ...

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 7.pref.15

Vitruvius

… cellae magnitudinem et columnarum circa dipteron conlocationem epistyliorum que et ceterorum ornamentorum ad symmetriam distributionem magna sollertia scientia que summa civis Romanus Cossutius nobiliter est architectatus.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 7.pref.13

Vitruvius

Namque singulis frontibus singuli artifices sumpserunt certatim partes ad ornandum et probandum Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas, Praxiteles, nonnulli etiam putant Timotheum, quorum artis eminens

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 6.7.3

Vitruvius

… porticusque peristyliorum albariis et tectoriis et ex intestino opere lacunariis ornatas ...

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 6.3.9

Vitruvius

Supra earum epistylia et ornamenta lacunariis ornantur ...

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 5.9.6

Vitruvius

… non puto dubium esse, quin amplissimas et ornatissimas subdiu hypaethrisque conlocari oporteat in civitatibus ambulationes.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 5.9.5

Vitruvius

Media vero spatia quae erunt subdiu inter porticus, adornanda viridibus videntur, quod hypaethroe ambulationes habent magnam salubritatem.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome
De architectura, 5.9.2

Vitruvius

Quae videntur ita oportere conlocari, uti duplices sint habeantque exteriores columnas doricas cum epistyliis et ornamentis ex ratione modulationis perfectas.

Text Category: Literature: prose

Century Range: 1st century BCE

Location: Rome