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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 hoc decore 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

  • 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

  • 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 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᾽ αὐτοῦ μαντιπόλος 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

  • 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 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, 2.5.127 (48)

    Cicero
    In urbe nostra pulcherrima atque ornatissima quod signum, quae tabula picta est quae non ab hostibus victis capta atque deportata sit?

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century BCE
    Location: Rome

  • In Verrem, 2.5.124 (47)

    Cicero
    Quas urbes P. Africanus etiam ornandas esse spoliis hostium arbitratus est, eas C. Verres non solum illis ornamentis sed etiam viris nobilissimis nefario scelere privavit.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century BCE
    Location: Rome

  • In Verrem, 2.5.44 (17)

    Cicero
    Navem vero cybaeam maximam, triremis instar, pulcherrimam atque ornatissimam ...

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century BCE
    Location: Rome

  • In Verrem, 2.4.133 (59)

    Cicero
    nulla umquam civitas tota Asia et Graecia signum ullum, tabulam pictam ullam, ullum denique ornamentum urbis sua voluntate cuiquam vendidit;

    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