Annales, 3.72

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
Annales, 3.72
Quotation
Erat etiam tum in more publica munificentia; nec Augustus arcuerat Taurum, Philippum, Balbum hostilis exuvias aut exundantis opes ornatum ad urbis et posterum gloriam conferre.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Location: City
Architecture: Public Space
Object/ Person Ornamented
The city of Rome, and specifically the Campus Martius
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Architecture: Building: Civic Building: Theatre
Architecture: Building: Civic Building: Amphitheatre
Architecture: Architectural Element
Medium/a Ornamenting
The Temple of Hercules Musarum and its new colonnade
the Theatre of Balbus
the Amphitheatre of Taurus
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Lucius Marcius Philippus
Lucius Cornelius Balbus
Titus Statilius Taurus
Notes
Part of the aggrandisement of Rome's built structure under the Emperor Augustus . Cf. Suet. Aug. 29.
Item Identifier
A00270
Determination
Derived directly from text