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  • 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

  • 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

  • Declamationes, 369.2

    Quintilian?
    Non utcumque attingitur sepulcrum violatur: alioqui nec inferre mortuos licet nec collapsa reficere nec ornare.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd 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

  • Thyestes, 464

    Seneca the Younger
    non ture colimur nec meae excluso Iove/ ornantur arae.

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

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 2.10.3

    Valerius Maximus
    … lecti illius frontem Macedonicis triumphis fuisse adornatam ...

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

  • De architectura, 7.5.4

    Vitruvius
    quemadmodum enim potest calamus vere sustinere tectum aut candelabrum ornamenta fastigii …

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

  • De architectura, 7.5.5

    Vitruvius
    Etenim etiam Trallibus cum Apaturius Alabandius eleganti manu finxisset scaenam in minusculo theatro, quod ecclesiasterion apud eos vocitatur, in eaque fecisset columnas, signa, centauros sustinentes epistylia, tholorum rotunda tecta, fastigiorum prominentes versuras, coronasque capitibus leoninis ornatas, quae omnia stillicidiorum e tectis habent rationem, praeterea supra ea nihilominus episcenium, in qua tholi, pronai, semifastigia omnisque tecti varius picturis fuerat ornatus ...

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

  • De architectura, 7.4.4

    Vitruvius
    Tricliniis hibernis non est utilis compositione nec melographia nec camerarum coronario opere subtilis ornatus, quod ea et ab ignis fumo et ab luminum crebris fuliginibus conrumpuntur.

    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, 7.pref.15

    Vitruvius
    … cellae magnitudinem et columnarum circa dipteron conlocationem epistyliorum que et ceterorum ornamentorum ad symmetriam distributionem magna sollertia scientia que summa civis Romanus Cossutius nobiliter est architectatus.

    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, 6.3.9

    Vitruvius
    Supra earum epistylia et ornamenta lacunariis ornantur ...

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

  • De architectura, 5.9.2

    Vitruvius
    Quae videntur ita oportere conlocari, uti duplices sint habeantque exteriores columnas doricas cum epistyliis et ornamentis ex ratione modulationis perfectas.

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

  • De architectura, 5.6.6

    Vitruvius
    columnae cum capitulis et spiris altae quarta parte eiusdem diametri; epistylia et ornamenta earum columnarum altitudinis quinta parte.

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

  • De architectura, 5.1.10

    Vitruvius
    Item sublata epistyliorum ornamenta et pluteorum columnarumque superiorum distributio operosam detrahit molestiam sumptusque inminuit ex magna parte summam.

    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, 4.2.1

    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, 4.1.8

    Vitruvius
    Tertium vero, quod Corinthium dicitur, virginalis habet gracilitatis imitationem, quod virgines propter aetatis teneritatem gracilioribus membris figuratae effectus recipiunt in ornatu venustiores.

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

  • De architectura, 4.1.7

    Vitruvius
    … ita duobus discriminibus columnarum inventionem, unam virili sine ornatu nudam speciem, alteram muliebri.

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

  • De architectura, 4.1.2

    Vitruvius
    … ut ex ionicis institutis zophoroe scalpturis ornati cum denticulis et coronis distribuuntur.

    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, 1.2.5

    Vitruvius
    Veneri, Florae, Proserpinae, Fonti Lumphis corinthio genere constitutae aptas videbuntur habere proprietates, quod his diis propter teneritatem graciliora et florida foliisque et volutis ornata opera facta augere videbuntur iustum decorem.

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

  • De architectura, 1.1.6

    Vitruvius
    Itaque ex eo multi statuas Persicas sustinentes epistylia et ornamenta eorum conlocaverunt …

    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