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• Origenis in Canticum Canticorum homiliae 1.10

  Hieronymus, translating from the original by Origen

  Ut ornamentum, quod solet virginum pendere 'collo' et nuncupatur hormiskos~g, ita sine hocdecore tuus ipse 'collus' est ornamentum.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 5th century CE

• Hexameron 3.13.53

  Ambrose

  trabes domorum nostrarum caedri, lacunaria nostra cypressi, in volantes esse declarans decora sui ornamenta fastigii, qui quasi trabes verticem ecclesiae sua virtute sustineant et fastigium [*] eius exornent.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• De habitu virginum 5

  Cyprian of Carthage

  Quodsi Christum continentia sequitur et regno Dei virginitas destinatur, quid istae cum terreno cultu et cum ornamentis, quibus dum hominibus placere gestiunt, Deum offendunt non cogitantes esse praedictum

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

• History Fragment 164 line 236

  Timaeus

  μετὰ δὲ ταύτην τὴν νῆσόν ἐστιν ἑτέρα τὴν μὲν προσηγορίαν ἔχουσα Γαῦλος, πελαγία δὲ καὶ λιμέσιν εὐκαίροις κεκοσμημένη, Φοινίκων ἄποικος.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

• Areopagiticus 7.66

  Isocrates

  καὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ τάδε τίς οὐ μνημονεύει τῶν ἡλικιωτῶν τῶν ἐμῶν, τὴν μὲν δημοκρατίαν οὕτω κοσμήσασαν τὴν πόλιν καὶ τοῖς ἱεροῖς καὶ τοῖς ὁσίοις, ὥστ᾽ ἔτι καὶ νῦν τοὺς ἀφικνουμένους νομίζειν αὐτὴν ἀξίαν εἶναι μὴ μόνον τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἄρχειν ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων, τοὺς δὲ τριάκοντα τῶν μὲν ἀμελήσαντας, τὰ δὲ συλήσαντας, τοὺς δὲ νεωσοίκους ἐπὶ καθαιρέσει τριῶν ταλάντων ἀποδομένους, εἰς οὓς ἡ πόλις ἀνήλωσεν οὐκ ἐλάττω χιλίων ταλάντων;

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

  Location: Athens

• Historiae Romanae 72.36

  Cassius Dio

  Οὐ μὴν διὰ τοῦτο ἐκ τῶν ὑπηκόων ἐχρηματίζετο, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν ἀπορίᾳ ποτὲ γεγονὼς ἀργυρίων, πολέμων ἐπικειμένων, οὔτε τέλος καινὸν ἐπενόησεν οὔτ᾿ αἰτῆσαι παρά του ἠνέσχετο χρήματα, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ πάντα τὰ ἐν τοῖς βασιλείοις κειμήλια θέμενος, καὶ εἴ τι πρὸς κόσμον προσῆν τῇ αὐτοῦ γαμετῇ, ὠνεῖσθαι ταῦτα τὸν βουλόμενον προετρέπετο

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

  Location: Bithynia

• De Natura Animalium 2.11

  Aelian

  καὶ εἰ ἐξελίττειν ἔδει, ἔπραττον αὐτό, καὶ ἄνθη μέντοι ῥιπτοῦντες ἐκόσμουν τὸ δάπεδον οἵδε, μέτρῳ καὶ φειδοῖ δρῶντες, καί τι καὶ ἐπεκτύπουν τοῖς ποσί, χόρειόν τε καὶ συμμελὲς ὁμορροθοῦντες οἱ αὐτοί.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome

• Deipnosophistae 12.40

  Athenaeus

  ου᾽ μόνος δὲ ὁ Σαρδανάπαλλος διετέθρυπτο, ἀλλὰ καὶ Ἀνδρόκοττος ὁ Φρύξ. καὶ γὰρ οὗτος ἐνεδέδυτο ἀνθινὴν ἐσθῆτα καὶ γυναικὸς εὐπρεπέστερον ἐκοσμεῖτο, ὡς Μνασέας φησὶν ἐν τρίτῳ Εὐρώπης.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

  Location: Rome

• Deipnosophistae 12.20

  Athenaeus

  Φύλαρχος δ᾽ ἐν τῇ πέμπτῃ καὶ εἰκοστῇ τῶν Ἱστοριῶν εἰπὼν ὅτι παρὰ Συρακοσίοις νόμος ἦν τὰς γυναῖκας μὴ κοσμεῖσθαι χρυσῷ μηδ᾽ ἀνθινὰ φορεῖν μηδ᾽ ἐσθῆτας ἔχειν πορφυρᾶς ἐχούσας παρυφάς ἐὰν μή τις αὐτῶν συγχωρῇ ἑταίρα εἶναι κοινή,

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

  Location: Rome

• Vita decem oratorum 11

  Plutarch

  ἔτι δὲ αἱρεθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου χρήματα πολλὰ συνήγαγεν εἰς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν, καὶ παρασκευάσας τῇ θεῷ κόσμον, Νίκας τε ὁλοχρύσους πομπεῖά τε χρυσᾶ καὶ ἀργυρᾶ καὶ κόσμον χρυσοῦν εἰς ἑκατὸν κανηφόρους χειροτονηθεὶς δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς τοῦ πολέμου παρασκευῆς ὅπλα μὲν πολλὰ καὶ βελῶν μυριάδας πέντε ἀνήνεγκεν εἰς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν, τετρακοσίας δὲ τριήρεις πλωΐμους κατεσκεύασε, τὰς μὲν ἐπισκευάσας τὰς δὲ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ναυπηγησάμενος

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Chaeronea

• De vitando aere alieno 1

  Plutarch

  καίτοι ὅ γε Περικλῆς ἐκεῖνος τὸν τῆς θεᾶς κόσμον, ἄγοντα τάλαντα τεσσαράκοντα χρυσίου ἀπέφθου, περιαιρετὸν ἐποίησεν, ὅπως, ἔφη, χρησάμενοι πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον αὖθις ἀποδῶμεν μὴ ἔλαττον

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Chaeronea

• De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute 2

  Plutarch

  περὶ δὲ τῆς Δαρείου γυναικός, εὐπρεπεστάτης γενομένης, οὐδὲ φωνὴν ἐπαινοῦσαν τὸ κάλλος ἤκουσεν ἀποθανοῦσαν δ᾽ οὕτω βασιλικῶς ἐκόσμησε καὶ συμπαθῶς;

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Chaeronea

• Septem sapientium convivium 18

  Plutarch

  ὀλίγοι δὲ μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ θαρρήσαντες προσελθεῖν ἐγνώρισαν Ἀρίονα τὸν κιθαρῳδόν, αὐτὸν τοὔνομα φθεγγόμενον ἑαυτοῦ, καὶ τῇ στολῇ καταφανῆ γενόμενον τὸν γὰρ ἐναγώνιον ἐτύγχανεν ἀμπεχόμενος κόσμον, ᾧ κιθαρῳδῶν ἐχρῆτο.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Chaeronea

• Pais 01275 = InscrIt-10-05, 00063

  Unknown

  [Imp(erator)] Caes(ar) M(arcus) A[ur(elius)] / [Anto]ninus Pi[us Fe]/[lix Invi]ctus Aug(ustus) [Parth(icus) max(imus)] / [Brit(annicus) m]ax(imus) Ger[m(anicus) max(imus) pont(ifex)] / [max(imus)] trib(unicia) po[t(estate) 3] / [3 pro]co(n)s(ul) I[3] / [3 libe]ralita[te 3] / [3]OII[3 // ]um PE[3] / [3]ia res[3] / [3 aba]cis mar[moreis] / exor[navit(?)

  Text Category: Inscription

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

  Date: 213

  Location: Germania Superior: Aquae

• CIL 14, 00244 (p 481, 773) [Ces] = CIL 14, 00245 [Fad, Fas] = CIL 14, 04531 [A] = CIL 14, 04532 [Ba] = CIL 14, 04532a [Bb] = CIL 14, 04533 [Cbd, Cbs] = CIL 14, 04534 [Ces] = CIL 14, 04535 [Ch] = CIL 14, 04536 [Fad, Fas] = CIL 14, 04537 [Ga] = CIL 14, 04538 [Gbc] = CIL 14, 04539 [Hc] = CIL 14, 04540 [Qb] = CIL 14, 04541 [Pc] = CIL 14, 04542 = CIL 14, 04543 [J] = CIL 14, 04544 = CIL 14, 04545 [Gf] = CIL 14, 04546 = CIL 14, 05354 [Ebcd] = CIL 14, 05355 [Zz] = EE-09, p 335 = D 06126 = InscrIt-13-01, 00005 (p 572) = FastiOstienses = RICIS-02, 00503/1102 = EAOR-04, 00007 = EAOR-04, 00008 = EAOR-04, 00009 = EAOR-04, 00010 = EAOR-04, 00011 = EAOR-04, 00012 = EAOR-04, 00013 = EAOR-04, 00015 = EAOR-04, 00016 = EAOR-04, 00017 = EAOR-04, 00018 = ELOstia p 83 = ELOstia p 123 = ELOstia p 181 = ELOstia p 213 = SdOstia-11, 00045 = Engfer-2017, 00084 = Engfer-2017, 00085 = IDRE-01, 00094 = IDRE-01, 00095 = AE 1917/18, 00122 [Ch] = AE 1922, 00094 [A] = AE 1924, 00111 [Ba, Bb] = AE 1928, 00126 = AE 1933, 00030 = AE 1936, 00097 [Kb] = AE 1936, 00098 [Pa] = AE 1936, 00099 [Qa] = AE 1937, 00010 [Gbc] = AE 1938, 00150 = AE 1939, 00052 = AE 1940, 00092 [Fad, Fbs] = AE 1940, 00093 [Fj] = AE 1945, 00033 [Cds, Cdd] = AE 1945, 00034 [Ha] = AE 1945, 00035 [Hb] = AE 1945, 00036 [Ma, Mc] = AE 1945, 00037 [S] = AE 1946, 00169 [Cas, Cad] = AE 1946, 00204 [Pb] = AE 1949, +00023 = AE 1949, 00064 = AE 1950, +00187 = AE 1954, 00123 = AE 1954, 00220 [Fh] = AE 1954, 00221 [Fbd] = AE 1954, 00222 [Fl] = AE 1954, 00223 [Gd] = AE 1955, +00120 = AE 1956, 00032 = AE 1956, 00132 = AE 1968, 00006 = AE 1975, 00130 = AE 1975, 00131 = AE 1975, 00132 = AE 1978, 00060 = AE 1978, 00061 = AE 1978, 00062 [Oa-e] = AE 1980, 00183 = AE 1994, 00330 = Fora-1996, 00001 (zum Jahr 152) = AE 1997, 00256 = AE 1998, +00408 = AE 2001, 00620 = FTD-06, p 336 = REMA-2004-107 = AE 2005, 00305 = AE 2016, +00190 = ZPE-217-210 (zum Jahr 102)

  Unknown

  Imp(erator) Traianus reliqua paria / [3]ae edere coepit qui dies vindemi/[alis nominatus] XI K(alendas) Sept(embres) aedis Volkani vetustate corrupta / [restituta or]nato opere dedicata est /

  Text Category: Inscription

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Date: 112

  Location: Latium: Ostia: Theatre

• CIL 01, 02924 = ZPE-45-130 = AE 1950, 00080 = AE 1952, +00036 = AE 1955, 00022 = AE 1957, +00012 = AE 1957, +00159 = AE 1960, 00066 = AE 1989, 00191

  Unknown

  [ioudex quisque tabellam ferto pr(aetorum)que eum quei maiori parti ioudicium videbitur praemio utei s(upra) s(criptum) e(st) ornato nomenque eius quem ita or]narit in tabula ahenea incisum sub rostris facito fixsum siet

  Text Category: Inscription

  Century Range: 2nd century BCE

  Date: 123-103

  Location: Calabria: Tarentum

• Greek Anthology 2.1

  Christodorus of Thebes

  ἐγγύθι δ᾽ αὐτοῦμαντιπόλος πάλιν ἄλλος ἔην Φοιβηίδι δάφνῃ κοσμηθεὶς Πολύειδος

  Text Category: Literature: epigram

  Century Range: 6th century CE

• CIL 10, 01217 (p 1008) = D 05651

  Unknown

  N(umerio) Plaetorio Oniro / Augustali / biselliario / honorato ornamentis / decurionalibus / populus Abellanus / aere conlato quod / auxerit ex suo ad / annonariam pecuniam / HS X(milia) n(ummum) et vela in thaeatro / cum omni ornatu / sumptu suo dederit / l(ocus) d(atus) d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)

  Text Category: Inscription: base

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Campania: Abella

• AE 1968, 00586 = IMustis 00002

  Unknown

  Aescula[pio Au]g(usto) sacrum pro salute / [Imp(eratoris) C]aes(aris) Traiani Hadriani Part(hici) Aug(usti) p(atris) p(atriae) C(aius) Iulius M(arci) f(ilius) Cor(nelia) Placidus ob [honor(em) flam(onii)] / [perp(etui)] cum HS X(milia) in opus munificentiae promisisset et ob honor(em) IIvir(atus) HS II(milia) ad[iecta a se] / [ampl]ius pecunia templum cum statuis III marmoribus picturis exornavit [item ad] / [or]namentum templi Plutonis urceum et lancem ex arg(enti) p(ondo) VI fecit idemq(ue) ded(icavit) [d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)]

  Text Category: Inscription: dedication

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Africa Proconsularis: Mustis

• IG XII,3 325

  Unknown

  ἐπειδὴ ἡ κατὰ πόλιν ὑπάρχουσα στοὰ ἡ π[ρ]ὸς τῇ30 ἀγορᾷ ἀπεστέγασται μὲν ὅλη, ἐκ μέρους δὲ καὶ τὰ τῶντοίχων αὐτῆς καὶ οἰκοδομημάτων καταπέπτωκεν καὶτὰ πρόσλοιπα δὲ διαπεφορημένα κινδυνεύει εἰς ἔδα-φος κατενεχθῆναι, πολλάκις τε περὶ τῆ[ς] κατασκευῆςαὐτῆς καὶ ἐπισκευῆς πανδημεὶ καταβοήσεις ἐγένον-το ἀναγκαίου ὄντος τοῦ ἔργου πρὸς ὅλον τὸν τῆς πόλεωςκόσμον τε καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν καὶ πολυτέλειαν, διὰ τὸ μηδὲνἕτερον τοιοῦτον ἐν αὐτῇ ὑπάρχειν ἔργον, καὶμηδενὸς μήτε ἄρχοντος μήτε ἰδιώτου ὑπεσχη-μένου ἀπο[κατ]αστῆσαι τῇ πόλει τὸ ἔργον, συν-ο[ρθ]ῶ[ν] μετ[ὰ] καὶ τούτου τοῦ ἔργου καὶ τὰ ἄλλακαταρειπτούμενα ὑπισχνοῦμαι, ὁποῖον ἂν καὶὁπόσον ὁ καιρός μοι ἐπιτρέψῃ καὶ ἡ τύχη τῆςπόλεως, κατ[αστή]σας αὐτὸ ἀποδοῦναι τῇ πόλεισῷον ἐκ [τῶν ἰδίων] μετὰ τοῦ ὑοῦ μου Φλ. Κλειτοσθέ-[νους Ἰουλιανοῦ κ]αὶ τοῦ ἐκγόνου μου Φλ. Κλειτοσθέ-[νο]υς [Κλαυδιανοῦ]·

  Text Category: Inscription

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Date: 149

  Location: Thera

• Annales, 3.72

  Tacitus

  Isdem diebus M. Lepidus ab senatu petivit ut basilicam Pauli, Aemilia monimenta, propria pecunia firmaret ornaretque.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century CE

  Location: Rome

• De architectura, 7.4.4

  Vitruvius

  Ipsi autem politionibus eorum ornatus proprios debent habere ad decoris rationes, uti et ex locis aptas et generum discriminibus non alienas habeant dignitates.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• De architectura, 4.1.7

  Vitruvius

  … cymatiis et encarpis pro crinibus dispositis frontes ornaverunt ...

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• De architectura, 4.1.2

  Vitruvius

  … quod ipsum corinthium genus propriam coronarum reliquorumque ornamentorum non habuerat institutionem, sed aut e triglyphorum rationibus mutuli in coronis et epistyliis guttae dorico more disponuntur ...

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• De legibus, 2.65 (26)

  Cicero

  … “ne quis sepulchrum faceret operosius quam quod decem homines effecerint triduo”; neque id opere tectorio exornari

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome