Epistulae, 3.19.2
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- Type of Thing Ornamented
- Object/ Person Ornamented
- Type of Medium Ornamenting
- Medium/a Ornamenting
- Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
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Literature: prose See all items with this value
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1st century CE See all items with this value
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2nd century CE See all items with this value
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Pliny the Younger See all items with this value
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Epistulae, 3.19.2
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… unam villam colere et ornare, alteram tantum tueri.
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Verb (active) See all items with this value
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Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure See all items with this value
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Villa of Pliny
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Visual Work: Furniture See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue See all items with this value
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Visual Work Painting See all items with this value
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Furniture explicitly referenced, but likely also statues and paintings
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Pliny the Younger
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The simple sense of "equip, furnish" is also surely in play here. However, given what we know of villa life, and the tradition of adorning villas with sculpture etc, it seems unlikely that this should not also be intended.
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A00294
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Derived directly from text