De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 28.3

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 28.3
Quotation
Urbem neque pro maiestate imperii ornatam et inundationibus incendiisque obnoxiam excoluit adeo, ut iure sit gloriatus marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
Rome
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Architecture: Building
Visual Work: Material: Brick
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified building and art, maybe sculpture. Buildings had been made of brick.
Notes
Augustus later beautifies it, but the passage essentially states that Rome had not been adorned in a way that befit it
Item Identifier
A00306
Determination
Interpreted from context