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  • De vita Caesarum: Vitellius, 5.1

    Suetonius
    at in urbano officio dona atque ornamenta templorum subripuisse et commutasse quaedam ferebatur proque auro et argento stagnum et aurichalcum supposuisse.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 6: Nero, 38.2

    Suetonius
    Tunc praeter immensum numerum insularum domus priscorum ducum arserunt hostilibus adhuc spoliis adornatae ...

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

  • De vita Caesarum 6: Nero, 12.4

    Suetonius
    … in auream pyxidem et pretiosissimis margaritis adornatam Capitolio consecravit.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 4: Caligula, 39.1

    Suetonius
    In Gallia quoque, cum damnatarum sororum ornamenta et supellectilem et servos atque etiam libertos immensis pretiis vendidisset, invitatus lucro, quidquid instrumenti veteris aulae erat ab urbe repetiit ...

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

  • De vita Caesarum 5: Claudius, 20.1

    Suetonius
    Claudiae aquae gelidos et uberes fontes, quorum alteri Caeruleo, alteri Curtio et Albudigno nomen est, simulque rivum Anienis novi lapideo opere in urbem perduxit divisitque in plurimos et ornatissimos lacus.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 3: Tiberius, 43.2

    Suetonius
    Cubicula plurifariam disposita tabellis ac sigillis lascivissimarum picturarum et figurarum adornavit

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

  • De vita Caesarum 3: Tiberius, 26.1

    Suetonius
    … etiam statuas atque imagines nisi permittente se poni; permisitque ea sola condicione, ne inter simulacra deorum sed inter ornamenta aedium ponerentur.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 72.3

    Suetonius
    … sua vero quamvis modica non tam statuarum tabularumque pictarum ornatu quam xystis et nemoribus excoluit rebusque vetustate ac raritate notabilibus, qualia sunt Capreis immanium beluarum ferarumque membra praegrandia, quae dicuntur gigantum ossa, et arma heroum.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 30.2

    Suetonius
    Aedes sacras vetustate conlapsas aut incendio absumptas refecit easque et ceteras opulentissimis donis adornavit, ut qui in cellam Capitolini Iovis sedecim milia pondo auri gemmasque ac margaritas quingenties sestertium una donatione contulerit.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 28.3

    Suetonius
    Urbem neque pro maiestate imperii ornatam et inundationibus incendiisque obnoxiam excoluit adeo, ut iure sit gloriatus marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 1: Julius, 28.1

    Suetonius
    superque Italiae Galliarumque et Hispaniarum, Asiae quoque et Graeciae potentissimas urbes praecipuis operibus exornans;

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

  • De vita Caesarum 1: Julius, 10.1

    Suetonius
    Aedilis praeter Comitium ac Forum basilicasque etiam Capitolium ornavit porticibus ad tempus extructis, in quibus abundante rerum copia pars apparatus exponeretur.

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

  • Epistulae, 10.70.4

    Pliny the Younger
    … ex quo cognosces multa Polyaenum in eiusdem domus ornatum reliquisse ...

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

  • Epistulae, 10.8.4

    Pliny the Younger
    Rogo ergo ante omnia permittas mihi opus quod incohaturus sum exornare et tua statua …

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

  • Epistulae, 6.18.1

    Pliny the Younger
    Cupio enim et ornatissimam coloniam advocationis officio ...

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

  • Epistulae, 5.11.1

    Pliny the Younger
    Recepi litteras tuas ex quibus cognovi speciosissimam te porticum sub tuo filiique tui nomine dedicasse, sequenti die in portarum ornatum pecuniam promisisse, ut initium novae liberalitatis esset consummatio prioris.

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

  • Epistulae, 5.6.37

    Pliny the Younger
    E regione stibadii adversum cubiculum tantum stibadio reddit ornatus, quantum accipit ab illo.

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

  • 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

  • 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, 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