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  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 8.5.4

    Quintus Curtius
    … loricas quoque alias auro, alias argento adornavit.

    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

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 3.13.10-11

    Quintus Curtius
    Iacebant totis campis opes regiae, illa pecunia stipendio ingenti militum praeparata, ille cultus tot nobilium virorum, tot illustrium feminarum, aurea vasa, aurei freni, tabernacula regali magnificentia ornata, vehicula quoque a suis destituta, ingentis opulentiae plena, facies etiam praedantibus tristis, si qua res avaritiam moraretur.

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

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 3.11.23

    Quintus Curtius
    … cum ii qui Dareo tabernaculum exornaverant, omni luxu et opulentia instructum, eadem illa Alexandro, quasi veteri domino, reservabant.

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

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 3.3.20

    Quintus Curtius
    Currum decem milia hastatorum sequebantur: hastas argento exornatas, spiculo aureo praefixas gestabant.

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

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 3.3.13

    Quintus Curtius
    … habebant manicatasque tunicas, gemmis etiam adornatas.

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

  • De architectura, 7.2.2

    Vitruvius
    Tunc autem machinis comparatis camerarum dispositiones in conclavibus expediantur, nisi lacunariis ea fuerint ornata.

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

  • De architectura, 7.pref.16

    Vitruvius
    Nam quattuor locis sunt aedium sacrarum marmoreis operibus ornatae dispositiones ...

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

  • De architectura, 6.7.3

    Vitruvius
    … porticusque peristyliorum albariis et tectoriis et ex intestino opere lacunariis ornatas ...

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

  • De architectura, 5.1.1

    Vitruvius
    Graeci in quadrato amplissimis et duplicibus porticibus fora constituunt crebrisque columnis et lapideis aut marmoreis epistyliis adornant et supra ambulationes in contignationibus faciunt.

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

  • De architectura, 4.2.2

    Vitruvius
    Ideo, quod antiqui fabri quodam in loco aedificantes, cum ita ab interioribus parietibus ad extremas partes tigna prominentia habuissent conlocata, inter tigna struxerunt supraque coronas et fastigia venustiore specie fabrilibus operibus ornaverunt, tum proiecturas tignorum

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

  • De architectura, 4.2.1

    Vitruvius
    Quoniam autem de generibus columnarum origines et inventiones supra sunt scriptae, non alienum mihi videtur isdem rationibus de ornamentis eorum, quemadmodum sunt prognata et quibus principiis et originibus inventa, dicere.

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

  • De architectura, 3.3.5

    Vitruvius
    Et ipsarum aedium species sunt varicae, barycephalae, humiles, latae, ornanturque signis fictilibus aut aereis inauratis earum fastigia tuscanico more, uti est ad Circum Maximum Cereris et Herculis Pompeiani, item Capitoli.

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

  • De architectura, 2.8.10

    Vitruvius
    item Halicarnasso potentissimi regis Mausoli domus, cum Proconnensio marmore omnia haberet ornata, parietes habet latere structos ...

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

  • De architectura, 2.1.7

    Vitruvius
    Posteaquam animadverterunt profusos esse partus ab natura et materiam abundantem copiarum ad aedificationes ab ea comparatam, tractando nutrierunt et auctam per artes ornaverunt voluptatibus elegantiam vitae.

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

  • De architectura, 1.1.5

    Vitruvius
    Historias autem plures novisse oportet, quod multa ornamenta saepe in operibus architecti designant, de quibus argumentis rationem, cur fecerint, quaerentibus reddere debent. Quemadmodum si quis statuas marmoreas muliebres stolatas, quae cariatides dicuntur, pro columnis in opere statuerit et insuper mutulos et coronas conlocaverit, percontantibus ita reddet rationem

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

  • Elegiae in Maecenatem, 63

    Vergil
    … et tibi thyrsus erat gemmis ornatus et auro ...

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

  • De lingua latina, 9.33 (46)

    Varro
    itaque sicut abacum argento ornari, ut alia <paria sint, alia> disparia, sic orationem.

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

  • De lingua latina,7.3 (40)

    Varro
    Quare ego arbitror potius Lucas ab luce, quod longe relucebant propter inauratos regios clupeos, quibus eorum tum ornatae erant turres.

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

  • In Scaurianam, 27C

    Asconius (summarising an unpublished speech of Cicero)
    in huius domus atrio fuerunt quattuor columnae marmoreae insigni magnitudine quae nunc esse in regia theatri Marcelli dicuntur. usus erat iis Aedilis, ut ipse quoque significat, in ornatu theatri, quod ad tempus perquam ampla magnitudine magnum fecerat.

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

  • Rhetorica ad Herennium, 4.60 (47)

    Unknown (traditionally Cicero)
    … citharam tenens exornatissimam auro et ebore distinctam ...

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

  • Tusculanae disputationes, 5.21 (61)

    Cicero
    … abacosque complures ornavit argento auroque caelato

    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 oratore, 1.162 (35)

    Cicero
    Quin tu igitur facis idem, inquit Scaevola, quod faceres, si in aliquam domum, plenam ornamentorum, villamve venisses?

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

  • Pro Quinctio, 93 (30)

    Cicero
    … non ornare magnifice splendideque convivium …

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