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  • 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, 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, 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, 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, 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

  • 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

  • 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, 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, 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

  • 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

  • Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, 86.9

    Seneca the Younger
    At olim et pauca erant balnea nec ullo cultu exornata. Cur enim exornaretur res quadrantaria et in usum, non in oblectamentum reperta?

    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