Ornamentum is very similar in meaning to instrumentum, and shows similar variety of signification due to context, although the verb stem is a little more specialized. The number of things which may be spoken of as having ornamenta are seen from the examples: ornamenta _bubus_, ornamenta _asinis_ instrata (esse oporteat), Cato, R. R. 11, 4; _elephantos_ ornatos armatosque cum turribus et ornamentis capit, Auct. B. Afr. 86; _pecuniam_ omniaque ornamenta ex _fano_ Herculis in oppidum Gadis contulit, B. C. 2, 18, 2; _eloquentia_ principibus maximo ornamento est, F. 4, 61; pecuniam et ornamenta _triumphi_ Caesaris retinenda curaret, Auct. B. Afr. 28, 2; audieram quae de _orationis_ ipsius ornamentis traderentur, De Or. I, 144; pulcherrima totius Galliae _urbs_, quae praesidio et ornamento est _civitati_, B. G. 7, 15; mihi hoc subsidium comparavi ad decus atque ornamentum _senectutis_, Orat. 1, 45; Hortensius, lumen atque ornamentum _rei publicae_, Mil. 14; _urceoli_ sex, ornamentum _abaci_, Juv. 3, 203; neminem omnium tot et tanta, quanta sunt in Crasso, habuisse ornamenta _dicendi_, Orat. 2, 28. Sometimes adjectives show the ornamenta to be a special sort of distinction: pluribus _triumphalia_ ornamenta decernenda curavit, Suet. Aug. 38; decem praetoriis viris _consularia_ ornamenta tribuit, Suet. Caes. 76. In comedy especially it means dress, costume: ipse ornamenta a _chorago_ haec sumpsit: si potero ornamentis _hominem circumducere_, dabo operam ut...., Trin. 859, 860; hominem cum ornamentis omnibus _exornatum_ adducite ad me, Pseud. 756; also trinkets: i, Palaestrio, _aurum_, ornamenta, _vestem_, omnia duc, M. G. 1302; in one instance, the dress of tragedy: ornamenta absunt: _Aiacem_, hunc quom vides ipsum vides, Capt. 615. Stramentum is applied to a number of things which can be conceived of as being strewn or covered with straw, but is also sometimes used absolutely: _fasces_ stramentorum _virgultorumque_ incenderunt, B. G. 8, 15, 5; iubet magnum numerum _mulorum_ produci deque his stramenta detrahi, B. G. 7, 45; cum ea noctem in stramentis _pernoctare_ (a bed), Truc. 278; stramenta si deerunt, _frondem ligneam_ legito: eam substernito _ovibus bubusque_, Cato, R. R. 5. There are two examples in which it means the roof of a house, or thatch: _casae_, quae stramentis _tectae erant_, B. G. 5, 43; pars ignes _casis_ stramento arido _tectis_ iniciunt, Liv. 25, 39.