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  • De vita Caesarum: Vitellius, 5.1

    Suetonius
    at in urbano officio dona atque ornamenta templorum subripuisse et commutasse quaedam ferebatur proque auro et argento stagnum et aurichalcum supposuisse.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 6: Nero, 12.4

    Suetonius
    … in auream pyxidem et pretiosissimis margaritis adornatam Capitolio consecravit.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 5: Claudius, 20.1

    Suetonius
    Claudiae aquae gelidos et uberes fontes, quorum alteri Caeruleo, alteri Curtio et Albudigno nomen est, simulque rivum Anienis novi lapideo opere in urbem perduxit divisitque in plurimos et ornatissimos lacus.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 30.2

    Suetonius
    Aedes sacras vetustate conlapsas aut incendio absumptas refecit easque et ceteras opulentissimis donis adornavit, ut qui in cellam Capitolini Iovis sedecim milia pondo auri gemmasque ac margaritas quingenties sestertium una donatione contulerit.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 28.3

    Suetonius
    Urbem neque pro maiestate imperii ornatam et inundationibus incendiisque obnoxiam excoluit adeo, ut iure sit gloriatus marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd 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

  • Historia Naturalis, 37.73 (19)

    Pliny the Elder
    Iuba auctor est smaragdum quam chloran vocent in Arabia aedificiorum ornamentis includi et lapidem quem alabastriten Aegyptii vocent

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

  • Historia Naturalis, 36.46 (5)

    Pliny the Elder
    dicit ... regias quoque domus, cum lautissime, praeter aes, aurum, electrum, argentum ebore tantum adornans.

    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, 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • De providentia, 6.4

    Seneca the Younger
    Auro illos et argento et ebore adornavi, intus boni nihil est.

    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

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 2.4.6

    Valerius Maximus
    Claudius Pulcher scaenam varietate colorum adumbravit, vacuis ante pictura tabulis extentam. quam totam argento C. Antonius, auro Petreius, ebore Q. Catulus praetexuit. versatilem fecerunt Luculli, argentatis choragiis P. Lentulus Spinther adornavit.

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

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 2.2.7

    Valerius Maximus
    … instrui tamen ea argenteis vasis et anulis aureis publice praebitis patiebantur, quo talium rerum usu auctoritas magistratuum esset ornatior.

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

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 1.1.ext.3

    Valerius Maximus
    detracto etiam Iovi Olympio magni ponderis aureo amiculo, quo eum tyrannus Gelo e manubiis Carthaginiensium ornaverat.

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

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 10.1.24

    Quintus Curtius
    … currusque argento et auro adornati ...

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

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 9.7 15

    Quintus Curtius
    Invitatis deinde ad epulas legatis gentium regulisque, exornari convivium iussit.

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

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 8.5.9

    Quintus Curtius
    Igitur festo die omni opulentia convivium exornari iubet ...

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