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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Pro Sestio, 94 (44)

    Cicero
    … neque tamen ullo in publico aut religioso loco signum aut tabulam aut ornamentum reliquisse ...

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

  • Pro lege Manilia, 23 (66)

    Cicero
    Quare, etiam si quem habetis, qui collatis signis exercitus regios superare posse videatur, tamen, nisi erit idem, qui se a pecuniis sociorum, qui ab eorum coniugibus ac liberis, qui ab ornamentis fanorum atque oppidorum, qui ab auro gazaque regia manus, oculos, animum cohibere possit, non erit idoneus, qui ad bellum Asiaticum regiumque mittatur.

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

  • In Caecilium, 19 (5)

    Cicero
    “Quod auri, quod argenti, quod ornamentorum in meis urbibus, sedibus, delubris fuit, quod in una quaque re beneficio senatus populique Romani iuris habui, id mihi tu, C. Verres, eripuisti atque abstulisti;"

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

  • In Verrem, 2.5.126 (48)

    Cicero
    Non argentum, non aurum, non vestem, non mancipia repetunt, non ornamenta quae ex urbibus fanisque erepta sunt;

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.134 (60)

    Cicero
    apud socios, ut imperio nostro quam ornatissimi florentissimique essent;

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.126 (57)

    Cicero
    Verres haec habeat domi, Verres ornamentis fanorum atque oppidorum habeat plenam domum, villas refertas.

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.124 (56)

    Cicero
    Itaque eius modi valvas reliquit ut quae olim ad ornandum templum erant maxime nunc tantum ad claudendum factae esse videantur.

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.123 (55)

    Cicero
    Et Marcellus qui, si Syracusas cepisset, duo templa se Romae dedicaturum voverat, is id quod erat aedificaturus iis rebus ornare quas ceperat noluit;

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.123 (55)

    Cicero
    Ille deos deorum spoliis ornari noluit, hic ornamenta Minervae virginis in meretriciam domum transtulit.

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.123 (55)

    Cicero
    Ac videte quanto taetrior hic tyrannus Syracusanis fuerit quam quisquam superiorum, quia, cum illi tamen ornarint templa deorum immortalium, hic etiam illorum monumenta atque ornamenta sustulit.

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.69 (31)

    Cicero
    tibi haec cura suscipienda, tibi haec opera sumenda est, ut Capitolium, quem ad modum magnificentius est restitutum, sic copiosius ornatum sit quam fuit ...

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