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  • De deo Socratis, 22 (3-5)

    Apuleius
    Plane quidem villas opipare exstruunt et domos ditissime exornant et familias numerosissime comparant. Sed in istis omnibus tanta affluentia rerum nihil est praeterquam ipse dominus pudendum, nec iniuria: cumulata enim habent, quae sedulo percolunt, ipsi autem horridi, indocti incultique circumeunt. 4Igitur illa spectes, in quae patrimonia sua profuderunt: amoenissima et exstructissima et ornatissima deprehendas, villas aemulas urbium conditas, domus vice templorum exornatas, familias numerosissimas et calamistratas, opiparam supellectilem, omnia affluentia, omnia opulentia, omnia ornata praeter ipsum dominum,

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

  • Apologia, 93 (.4)

    Apuleius
    … grandem domum opulente ornatam ...

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

  • Apologia, 22 (.3)

    Apuleius
    … villas ornatissimas una perula mutavit ...

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

  • Noctes Atticae, 13.25.9

    Aulus Gellius
    “Quod auri, quod argenti, quod ornamentorum in meis urbibus, sedibus, delubris fuit.”

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

  • Noctes Atticae, 4.16.8

    Aulus Gellius
    Isti, quorum in aedibus fanisque posita et honori erant et ornatu ...

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

  • De vita Caesarum: Titus, 8.4

    Suetonius
    Urbis incendio nihil publice nisi periisse testatus, cuncta praetoriorum suorum ornamenta operibus ac templis destinavit praeposuitque …

    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 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 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

  • 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, 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, 36.189 (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, 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

  • 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

  • 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, 1.9

    Tacitus
    … urbem ipsam magnifico ornatu ...

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