Forum (Romanum or Magnum)

Ab Urbe Condita

T. Livius

Tantum magnificentiae visum in iis, ut aurata scuta dominis argentariarum ad forum ornandum dividerentur.

So magnificent was its appearance that the shields inlaid with gold were divided up amongst the owners of the money-changers' booths, to be used in decking out the Forum.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from T. Livius: History of Rome (Volume IV: Books 8-10), Loeb Classical Library Vol. 191, translated by B.O. Foster, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1926, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Texts

"Fragmentum (cited by Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina)", 853L
M. Terentius Varro (Varro)

Ab Urbe Condita, 40.51.5
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 1.35.10
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 26.27.1-4
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 27.11.16
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 1.56.2
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 1.38.6
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita Periochae, 16
T. Livius (Livy)

Aeneis, 8.361
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil)

Antiquitates Romanae, 3.67.4
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Carmina, 1.2.13-16
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

Curculio, 476
T. Maccius Plautus

Curculio, 470-81
T. Maccius Plautus

De Amicitia, 96
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 2.4.7
Valerius Maximus

Fasti, 6.401-6
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Forum Romanum
Richardson, L. jr

Forum Romanum (The Imperial Period)
N. Purcell

Forum Romanum (The Republican Period)
N. Purcell

Historia Romana, 13.16
Paulus Diaconus

Historiae Romanae, 43.22.2
Cassius Dio

Liber Pontificalis, 2.108
anon.

Naturalis Historia, 19.23
C. Plinius Caecilius (Pliny the Elder)

Res Rusticae, 1.2.9
M. Terentius Varro (Varro)

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