De vita Caesarum 5: Claudius, 20.1

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
De vita Caesarum 5: Claudius, 20.1
Quotation
Claudiae aquae gelidos et uberes fontes, quorum alteri Caeruleo, alteri Curtio et Albudigno nomen est, simulque rivum Anienis novi lapideo opere in urbem perduxit divisitque in plurimos et ornatissimos lacus.
Part of Speech
Adjective (superlative)
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Infrastructure
Object/ Person Ornamented
Pools, city receptacles for the aqueducts carrying the waters of the Caeruleus, Curtius, Albudignus, and the new source for the Anio, Rome
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Material: Marble
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Sculpture: Relief
Architecture: Architectural Element
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified; context suggests: marble revetment, sculpture (relief and in the round), other architectural embellishment (roof etc)
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Claudius
Item Identifier
A00312
Determination
Interpreted from context