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  • Epistulae, 3.19.2

    Pliny the Younger
    … unam villam colere et ornare, alteram tantum tueri.

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

  • Epistulae, 2.17.27

    Pliny the Younger
    Litus ornant varietate gratissima nunc continua nunc intermissa tecta villarum ...

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

  • 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

  • Strategmata, 4.3.15

    Frontinus
    L. Mummius, qui Corintho capta non Italiam solum sed etiam provincias tabulis statuisque exornavit, adeo nihil ex tantis manubiis in suum convertit, ut filiam eius inopem senatus ex publico dotaverit.

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

  • Strategmata, 4.1.5

    Frontinus
    Scipio Africanus, cum ornatum scutum elegantius cuiusdam vidisset, dixit non mirari se, quod tanta cura ornasset, in quo plus praesidii quam in gladio haberet.

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

  • Strategmata, 1.11.16

    Frontinus
    … arma quae ornamentis adfixa in templis erant nocte subtraxit persuasitque militibus deos iter suum sequi, ut proeliantibus ipsis adessent.

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

  • Declamationes, 369.2

    Quintilian?
    Non utcumque attingitur sepulcrum violatur: alioqui nec inferre mortuos licet nec collapsa reficere nec ornare.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Institutio oratoria, 9.1.37

    Quintilian
    Sunt enim similia illis quae in amplo ornatu scaenae aut fori appellantur insignia, non quia sola ornent, sed quod excellant.

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

  • Institutio oratoria, 5.11.7

    Quintilian
    Marcellus ornamenta Syracusanis hostibus restituit, Verres eadem sociis abstulit.

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

  • Institutio oratoria, 2.3.6

    Quintilian
    … nisi forte Iovem quidem Phidias optime fecit, illa autem quae in ornamentum operis eius accedunt alius melius elaborasset ...

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

  • Dialogus, 8.4

    Tacitus
    His igitur et honoribus et ornamentis et facultatibus refertas domos eorum videmus qui se ab ineunte adulescentia causis forensibus et oratorio studio dederunt.

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

  • Historiae, 3.72

    Tacitus
    … ea magnificentia quam immensae postea populi Romani opes ornarent potius quam augerent.

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

  • Annales, 14.4

    Tacitus
    Stabat inter alias navis ornatior …

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

  • Annales, 3.72

    Tacitus
    Erat etiam tum in more publica munificentia; nec Augustus arcuerat Taurum, Philippum, Balbum hostilis exuvias aut exundantis opes ornatum ad urbis et posterum gloriam conferre.

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