Statue - Ornamenting - Definite

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  • Ars amatoria, 3.231-232

    Ovid
    Aurea quae splendent ornato signa theatro,/ Inspice, contemnes: brattea ligna tegit

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

  • Ars amatoria, 1.407

    Ovid
    Sive erit ornatus non ut fuit ante sigillis,/ Sed regum positas Circus habebit opes ...

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

  • Elegiae, 3.9.15

    Propertius
    Phidiacus signo se Iuppiter ornat eburno

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

  • De deo Socratis, 22 (3-5)

    Apuleius
    Plane quidem villas opipare exstruunt et domos ditissime exornant et familias numerosissime comparant. Sed in istis omnibus tanta affluentia rerum nihil est praeterquam ipse dominus pudendum, nec iniuria: cumulata enim habent, quae sedulo percolunt, ipsi autem horridi, indocti incultique circumeunt. 4Igitur illa spectes, in quae patrimonia sua profuderunt: amoenissima et exstructissima et ornatissima deprehendas, villas aemulas urbium conditas, domus vice templorum exornatas, familias numerosissimas et calamistratas, opiparam supellectilem, omnia affluentia, omnia opulentia, omnia ornata praeter ipsum dominum,

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

  • 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, 38.2

    Suetonius
    Tunc praeter immensum numerum insularum domus priscorum ducum arserunt hostilibus adhuc spoliis adornatae ...

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

  • De vita Caesarum 3: Tiberius, 43.2

    Suetonius
    Cubicula plurifariam disposita tabellis ac sigillis lascivissimarum picturarum et figurarum adornavit

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

  • De vita Caesarum 3: Tiberius, 26.1

    Suetonius
    … etiam statuas atque imagines nisi permittente se poni; permisitque ea sola condicione, ne inter simulacra deorum sed inter ornamenta aedium ponerentur.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 1: Julius, 10.1

    Suetonius
    Aedilis praeter Comitium ac Forum basilicasque etiam Capitolium ornavit porticibus ad tempus extructis, in quibus abundante rerum copia pars apparatus exponeretur.

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

  • Epistulae, 10.8.4

    Pliny the Younger
    Rogo ergo ante omnia permittas mihi opus quod incohaturus sum exornare et tua statua …

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

  • Epistulae, 3.19.2

    Pliny the Younger
    … unam villam colere et ornare, alteram tantum tueri.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st 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

  • Historia Naturalis, 35.5 (2)

    Pliny the Elder
    iidem palaestrae athletarum imaginibus et ceromata sua exornant.

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

  • Historia Naturalis, 34.17 (9)

    Pliny the Elder
    … et in omnium municipiorum foris statuae ornamentum esse coepere propagarique memoria hominum et honores legendi aevo basibus inscribi, ne in sepulcris tantum legerentur.

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

  • Historia Naturalis, 7.34 (3)

    Pliny the Elder
    Pompeius Magnus in ornamentis theatri mirabiles fama posuit effigies ob id diligentius magnorum artificum ingeniis elaboratas, inter quas legitur Eutychis a viginti liberis rogo inlata Trallibus enixa xxx partus, Alcippe elephantum

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

  • Strategmata, 4.3.15

    Frontinus
    L. Mummius, qui Corintho capta non Italiam solum sed etiam provincias tabulis statuisque exornavit, adeo nihil ex tantis manubiis in suum convertit, ut filiam eius inopem senatus ex publico dotaverit.

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

  • Institutio oratoria, 9.1.37

    Quintilian
    Sunt enim similia illis quae in amplo ornatu scaenae aut fori appellantur insignia, non quia sola ornent, sed quod excellant.

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

  • Silvae, 4.6.85-88

    Statius
    Nec post Sidonii letum ducis aere potita/ egregio plebeia domus. convivia Sullae/ ornabat semper claros intrare penates/ assuetum et felix dominorum stemmate signum

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

  • Saturae, 3.218

    Juvenal
    hic nuda et candida signa,/ hic aliquid praeclarum Euphranoris et Polycliti/ aera, Asianorum vetera ornamenta deorum ...

    Text Category: Literature: verse
    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, 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, 4.3.22

    Quintus Curtius
    Syracusis id simulacrum devexerant Poeni et in maiore locaverant patria multisque aliis spoliis urbium a semet captarum non Carthaginem magis quam Tyrum ornaverant.

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

  • Historiae Romanae, 1.11.3

    Velleius Paterculus
    quique hanc turmam statuarum equestrium, quae frontem aedium spectant, hodieque maximum ornamentum eius loci, ex Macedonia detulit.

    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.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