Writing in the second century AD, the biographer Suetonius employed the word luxuria to characterize the degenerate behavior of Emperor Nero, whose habits he said included traveling with a thousand carriages pulled by mules shod with silver, and entertaining in his wildly extravagant palace, which he had overlaid with gold and fitted with pipes to spray perfume on his guests. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)
French had borrowed the word from Medieval Latin, in which luxuria was sometimes personified as Lust or Gluttony or Greed. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)
But even before the Christian era, luxuria had been a favorite term to describe despicable excesses, notably of certain Roman emperors. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)
Crescunt tamen feminini doli, crudelitas, vitia et insatiabilis luxuria. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Viewed as luxuria, such conduct raised opposition expressed in the form of censorial reprimands, sumptuary laws (in 215, 181, 161, and 115), and numerous speeches. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Augustus's attempts to curb public aristocratic display were successful, but his programs to put an end to private luxuria failed utterly. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Cicero's speeches employ laudatio and vituperatio, in which, among the four virtues, temperantia (with its antitheses) receives by far the greatest attention, not only because accusations of luxuria and avaritia had long proved most effective in arousing indignatio and odium, but also because Cicero sincerely believed that these were the vices most typical of Rome and most dangerous to the welfare of the Republic. ❋ HELEN F. NORTH (1968)
Igitur ex divitiis juventutem luxuria atque avaritia cum superbia invasere; rapere, consumere, sua parvi pendere, aliena cupere, pudorem, pudicitiam, divina atque humana promiscua, nihil pensi neque moderati habere. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
Sed ea saepe antehac fidem prodiderat, creditum abjuraverat, caedis conscia fuerat, luxuria atque inopia praeceps [140] abierat. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
Aegyptos, sed luxuria, quantum ipse notavi, barbara famoso non cedit turba Canopo. ' ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
Non fuit elegantia illud aut cura, sed studiosa luxuria. ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)
Incitabant praeterea corrupti civitatis mores, quos pessima ac diversa inter se mala, luxuria atque avaritia, vexabant. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
Saepenumero, P. C., multa verba in hoc ordine feci, [276] saepe de luxuria atque avaritia nostrorum civium questus sum, multosque mortales ea causa adversos habeo; qui mihi atque animo meo nullius unquam delicti gratiam fecissem, [277] haud facile alterius libidini male facta condonabam. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
Manlius in Etruria plebem sollicitare, egestate simul ac dolore injuriae novarum rerum cupidam, quod Sullae dominatione agros bonaque omnia amiserat, praeterea latrones cujusque generis, quorum in ea regione magna copia erat, nonnullos ex Sullanis colonis, quibus libido atque luxuria ex magnis rapinis nihil reliqui fecerant. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
Or we may think of the luxuria foliorum of that tree in the Garden of Proserpine described by Spenser, ❋ Unknown (1884)
Imperium fint, quod populo aec avaritis nee luxuria vitiato optimum videretar. ❋ Lathrop, George P (1876)
Patres luxuria solum populis praestiterunt, et vestigia eorum populi secuti sunt. ❋ Lathrop, George P (1876)
[Luxuria] caused the [downfall] of [NY] Major.
I lost my shirt due to [luxuria]. ❋ Rperazag (2010)
