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  • 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, 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • De architectura, 7.5.2

    Vitruvius
    ... ambulationibus vero propter spatia longitudinis varietatibus topiorum ornarent a certis locorum proprietatibus imagines exprimentes; pinguntur enim portus, promunturia, litora, flumina, fontes, euripi, fana, luci, montes, pecora, pastores.

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

  • De architectura, 5.6.8-9

    Vitruvius
    Secundum ea loca versurae sunt procurrentes, quae efficiunt una a foro, altera a peregre aditus in scaenam. Genera autem sunt scaenarum tria: unum quod dicitur tragicum, alterum comicum, tertium satyricum. Horum autem ornatus sunt inter se dissimili disparique ratione, quod tragicae deformantur columnis et fastigiis et signis reliquisque regalibus rebus; comicae autem aedificiorum privatorum et maenianorum habent speciem profectusque fenestris dispositos imitatione communium aedificiorum rationibus; satyricae vero ornantur arboribus, speluncis, montibus reliquisque agrestibus rebus in topeodi speciem deformati.

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

  • De bello Iugurthino, 16.5

    Sallust
    In divisione quae pars Numidiae Mauretaniam adtingit, agro virisque, illam alteram specie quam usu potiorem, quae portuosior et aedificiis magis exornata erat, Adherbal possedit.

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

  • Epistulae ad Atticum, 5.10 (103) 5

    Cicero
    valde me Athenae delectarunt, urbe dumtaxat et urbis ornamento et hominum amore in te, in nos quadam benevolentia;

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

  • Topica, 100 (26)

    Cicero
    ... fecique quod saepe liberales venditores solent, ut, cum aedes fundumve vendiderint rutis caesis receptis, concedant tamen aliquid emptori quod ornandi causa apte et loco positum esse videatur; sic tibi nos ad id quod quasi mancipio dare debuimus ornamenta quaedam voluimus non debita accedere.

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

  • De officiis, 1.39.139

    Cicero
    Ornanda enim est dignitas domo, non ex domo tota quaerenda, nec domo dominus, sed domino domus honestanda est …

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

  • De finibus bonorum et malorum, 3.2.8

    Cicero
    nam his libris eum malo quam reliquo ornatu villae delectari.

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

  • De republica, 1.21 (14)

    Cicero
    … quam M. Marcelli avus captis Syracusis ex urbe locupletissima atque ornatissima sustulisset ...

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

  • Pro M. Tullio, 6 (13)

    Cicero
    nam P. Fabius nuper emit agrum de C. Claudio senatore, cui fundo erat adfinis M. Tullius, sane magno, dimidio fere pluris incultum exustis villis omnibus quam quanti integrum atque ornatissimum carissimis pretiis ipse Claudius emerat.

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

  • Pro Flacco, 56

    Cicero
    Queritur gravis, locuples, ornata civitas, quod non retinet alienum; spoliatam se dicit …

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.5 (3)

    Cicero
    Messanam ut quisque nostrum venerat, haec visere solebat; omnibus haec ad visendum patebant cotidie; domus erat non domino magis ornamento quam civitati.

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.3 (2)

    Cicero
    Ea domus ante istius adventum ornata sic fuit ut urbi quoque esset ornamento; nam ipsa Messana, quae situ moenibus portuque ornata sit, ab his rebus quibus iste delectatur sane vacua atque nuda est.

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

  • In Verrem, 2.2.86 (35)

    Cicero
    hi se patrum fortunam ac dignitatem recuperare arbitrabantur cum illa maiorum ornamenta in eorum oppido collocabantur.

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

  • De lege agraria, 2.76 (28)

    Cicero
    At enim ager Campanus hac lege dividetur orbi terrae pulcherrimus, et Capuam colonia deducetur, urbem amplissimam atque ornatissimam

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

  • Ab urbe condita, 44.7.3

    Livy
    Ipse urbem ingressus, sicut non magnam, ita exornatam publicis locis et multitudine statuarum munitamque egregie, vix satis credere in tantis rebus sine causa relictis non aliquem subesse dolum.

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

  • Ab urbe condita, 40.5.7

    Livy
    … alii speciem ipsius urbis nondum exornatae neque publicis neque privatis locis ...

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

  • Ab urbe condita, 37.21.7

    Livy
    … ad insulam quam Bacchium vocant … adpulerunt, et quibus ante abstinuerant templis signisque—egregie autem exornata insula erat—cum hostiliter diripuissent …

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

  • Ab urbe condita, 31.30.8

    Livy
    Qualem terram Atticam fecerit, exornatam quondam opulentamque, talem eum, si liceat, Aetoliam Graeciamque omnem facturum.

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