Décoro, as, pen. cor. âre. Cicer.To beautifie or make faire to the eie or eare: to do honour to: to make more honourable: to set forth or commende.Bene nummatum decorat suadela. Hora. It is an ornament to a rich man to be eloquent: or eloquence doth adourne commende or set foorth a rich man.Sertis decorare comas. Tibul. To adourne or trimme wyth garlandes.Hæc ommnia vitæ decorabat grauitas & integritas. Ci. Did beantisle and set foorth.Decorare aliquem honoribus. Cice. To aduaunce to greate honours and promotions.Amplissimís honoribus & præmijs decorari.Cic.Aeterna triumphi laude imperatores decorare. Cicero. To make honourable with the perpetual praise of a triumph.Omni laude. prædicatione, literis, monimentísque decoráda virtus aliqua. Ci. Worthie to be set forth and commended with, &c.Sciprones patriam spolijs triumphísque decorarunt.Cicer.The Scipions did adourne or make honourable theyr countrey with, &c.Aliquem titulis decorare. Sil. To giue honourable ritles to one.Oppida publico sumptu decorare. Hora. To adourne, &c.Decorare atque augere Rempub.Cic.Mores decorant virum. Claud. Maners commend and sette foorth a man.Quæ populari glotia decorari in Lucullo debuerunt, ea feré sunt & Græcis literis celebrata & Latinis. Cicero. Those things which by the iudgement of the people were to bee praised in Lucullus, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dĕcŏro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [decus], to decorate, adorn, embellish, grace, beautify (class, and freq.). I.Lit., with abl.: Larem corona nostrum decorari volo, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 1: oppidum ex pecunia sua locis communibus monumentisque, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 46; Verg. A. 6, 217: templa novo saxo, Hor. Od. 2, 15, 20: dissignatorem lictoribus atris,
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, id. Ep. 1, 7, 6, etc.: quae tuos digitos decorat, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 58; cf. so without abl., Tib. 2, 2, 6: nescias an te generum beati Phyllidis flavae decorent parentes, Hor. Od. 2, 4, 14; Liv. 1, 26 et saep. —II.Trop., to decorate, distinguish, honor, with abl.: nemo me lacrumis decoret nec funera fletu Faxit, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34; cf.: egregias animas ... decorate supremis Muneribus, Verg. A. 11, 25: quem populus R. singularibus honoribus decorasset, Cic. Balb. 6 fin.; cf.: aliquem amplissimis honoribus et praemiis, id. de Or. 1, 54, 232: O clementiam admirabilem atque omni laude decorandam!id. Lig. 2 fin.: delubra deorum pietate, domos suas gloriā, Sall. C. 12, 4: nec prave factis decorari versibus opto, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 266: inani vocis sono decoratum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 119 et saep. —Without abl.: quam (remp.) ipse decorarat atque auxerat, id. Pis. 12, 27; id. Brut. 75, 265: bene nummatum decorat Suadela Venusque, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 38.—Hence, dĕ-cŏrātus, a, um, P. a., adorned, beautiful.—In sup.: orationes, Boeth. Arist. Elench. Soph. 1, 12, p. 743.