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  • 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, 10.98.1

    Pliny the Younger
    Amastrianorum civitas, domine, et elegans et ornata habet inter praecipua opera pulcherrimam eandemque longissimam plateam

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

  • Epistulae, 10.70.1

    Pliny the Younger
    Per hoc enim consequemur, ut foedissima facies civitatis ornetur, atque etiam ut ipsa civitas amplietur nec ulla aedificia tollantur, sed quae sunt vetustate sublapsa relaxentur in melius.

    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, 5.6.37

    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, 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, 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, 36.36 (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, 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Divi Claudii apocolocyntosis, 10

    Seneca the Younger
    Ideo legibus urbem fundavi, operibus ornavit ...

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

  • Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, 115.9

    Seneca the Younger
    Nec tantum parietibus aut lacunaribus ornamentum tenue praetenditur

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    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

  • Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, 86.7

    Seneca the Younger
    Quantum statuarum, quantum columnarum est nihil sustinentium, sed in ornamentum positarum inpensae causa!

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

  • De consolatione ad Marciam, 10.1

    Seneca the Younger
    Conlaticiis et ad dominos redituris instrumentis scaena adornatur

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

  • De tranquillitate animi, 9.6

    Seneca the Younger
    … iam enim inter balnearia et thermas bybliotheca quoque ut necessarium domus ornamentum expolitur.

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

  • De tranquillitate animi, 9.2

    Seneca the Younger
    Adsuescamus a nobis removere pompam, et usus rerum, non ornamenta, metiri.

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

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 7.6.4

    Valerius Maximus
    ...senatus consulto aurea atque argentea templorum ornamenta, ne militibus stipendia deessent, conflata sunt

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

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 5.1.7-8

    Quintus Curtius
    quippe Babylona, urbem opulentissimam, dedi cernentibus: iam Susa, iam cetera ornamenta regni, causam belli, victorem occupaturum.

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

  • Historiae Romanae, 2.89.4

    Velleius Paterculus
    Principes viri triumphisque et amplissimis honoribus functi adhortatu principis ad ornandam urbem inlecti sunt.

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