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• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• In Verrem, 2.4.126 (57)

  Cicero

  … spectet forum ornatum, si quid iste suorum aedilibus commodarit;

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• Cicero

  Rome

  Latin

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

• In Verrem, 2.4.71 (32)

  Cicero

  in istius lenonis turpissimi domo simul cum ceteris Chelidonis hereditariis ornamentis Capitolii ornamenta ponentur?

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• In Verrem, 2.3.9 (4)

  Cicero

  huius argento dominia vestra, huius signis et tabulis forum comitiumque ornari praesertim cum vos vestro Marte his rebus omnibus abundetis?

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• In Verrem, 2.1.58 (22)

  Cicero

  Dices tua quoque signa et tabulas pictas ornamento urbi foroque populi Romani fuisse. Memini; vidi simul cum populo Romano forum comitiumque adornatum, ad speciem magnifico ornatu, ad sensum cogitationemque acerbo et lugubri

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• Res Gestae 16.10.17

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  multis igitur cum stupore visis horrendo imperator de fama querebatur ut invalida vel maligna,quod augens omnia semper in maius erga haec explicanda, quae Romae sunt, obsolescit, deliberansque diu, quid ageret, urbis addere statuit ornamentis, ut in proximo circo erigeret obeliscum,cuius originem formam que loco competenti monstrabo.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• Epitoma historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi 20.4.10-12

  Justin

  Inter haec velut genetricem virtutum frugalitatem omnibus ingerebat consecutus quedisputationum adsiduitate erat, ut matronae auratas vestes cetera que dignitatis suae ornamenta velut instrumenta luxuriae deponerent ea que omnia delata in Iunonis aedem ipsi deaeconsecrarent, prae se ferentes vera ornamenta matronarum pudicitiam, non vestes esse.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

• Ephemeris belli Troiani in lat. versa atqueretractata 5.2

  Dictys Cretensis sec. translationem L. Septimii

  templorum etiam, si necesse erit, ornamentis pro incolumitate patriae utendum est.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• Ephemeris belli Troiani in lat. versa atqueretractata 2.28

  Dictys Cretensis sec. translationem L. Septimii

  Per idem tempus Chryses, quem sacerdotem Zminthii Apollinis supra docuimus, cognito filiam suam Astynomen cum Agamemnone degere, fretus religione tanti numinis ad naves venit, praeferens dei vultus ac quaedam ornamentorum templi eius, quo facilius recordatione praesentis numinis veneratio sui regibus incuteretur.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• Contra Parmenianum Donatistam 3.3

  Optatus of Milevis

  Miserat enim ornamenta domibus Dei, miseratpauperibus eleemosynam, nihil Donato.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• Tractatus 2.4.8 (De spiritu et corpore)

  Zeno of Verona

  Tunc carnalis mimus ille finitur exsangui que nihil iam suffragantia tota illa ornamentamedentur, nisi quod a false plangentibus adhuc viventi rapiuntur.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

  Date: 370

• Relatio 3.5

  Quintus Aurelius Symmachus "Eusebius"

  Quodsi huius ominis non esset iusta vitatio, ornamentis saltem curiae decuit abstineri.

  Text Category: Literature: letter

  Century Range: 4th century CE

  Date: 384

• Epistulae 18

  Ambrose

  Sed vetera, inquit, reddenda sunt altaria simulacris, ornamenta delubris

  Text Category: Literature: letter

  Century Range: 4th century CE

  Date: 384