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  • 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, 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

  • 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

  • Annales, 3.9

    Tacitus
    Fuit inter inritamenta invidiae domus foro imminens festa ornatu conviviumque et epulae et celebritate loci nihil occultum.

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

  • Annales, 1.9

    Tacitus
    … urbem ipsam magnifico ornatu ...

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

  • Punica, 14.652

    Statius
    hic Agathocleis sedes ornata tropaeis

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

  • Silvae, 4.6.85-88

    Statius
    Nec post Sidonii letum ducis aere potita/ egregio plebeia domus. convivia Sullae/ ornabat semper claros intrare penates/ assuetum et felix dominorum stemmate signum

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

  • Saturae, 3.218

    Juvenal
    hic nuda et candida signa,/ hic aliquid praeclarum Euphranoris et Polycliti/ aera, Asianorum vetera ornamenta deorum ...

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

  • Saturae, 3.204

    Juvenal
    lectus erat Cordo Procula minor, urceoli sex/ ornamentum abaci, nec non et parvulus infra/ centaurus recubans ab eodem marmore Chiron …

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

  • Fabulae, 4.5.34

    Phaedrus
    “Domum et ornamenta cum venustis hortulis/ et vina vetera date lanificae rusticae;"

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

  • Thyestes, 464

    Seneca the Younger
    non ture colimur nec meae excluso Iove/ ornantur arae.

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

  • Phoenissae, 505-508

    Seneca the Younger
    non te duxit in thalamos parens comitata primos nec sua festas manu ornavit aedes nec sacra laetas faces vitta revinxit.

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

  • Naturales quaestiones, 4a.2.18

    Seneca the Younger
    argentum replumbatur; signorum coagmenta solvuntur; nullum materiae superadornatae manet operimentum.

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

  • Naturales quaestiones, 1.17.8

    Seneca the Younger
    … specula totis paria corporibus auro argentoque caelata sunt,gemmis deinde adornata ...

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

  • Medea, 486

    Seneca the Younger
    ex opibus illis, quas procul raptas Scythae/ usque a perustis Indiae populis agunt,/ quas quia referta vix domus gazas capit,/ ornamus auro nemora, nil exul tuli/ ...

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