De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 30.2

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 30.2
Quotation
Aedes sacras vetustate conlapsas aut incendio absumptas refecit easque et ceteras opulentissimis donis adornavit, ut qui in cellam Capitolini Iovis sedecim milia pondo auri gemmasque ac margaritas quingenties sestertium una donatione contulerit.
Part of Speech
Verb (compound) (active)
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Temple
Cultic: Building: Temple
Object/ Person Ornamented
Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline (interior)
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Material: Precious Metals: Gold
Visual Work: Material: Precious Stones
Medium/a Ornamenting
Sixteen thousand pounds of gold and gems, fifty million sesterces worth of pearls
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Augustus
Notes
Precious materials valued in language akin to statues as ornaments of temples here
Item Identifier
A00308
Determination
Derived directly from text