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  • 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

  • IG XII,3 325

    Unknown
    ἐπειδὴ ἡ κατὰ πόλιν ὑπάρχουσα στοὰ ἡ π[ρ]ὸς τῇ 30 ἀγορᾷ ἀπεστέγασται μὲν ὅλη, ἐκ μέρους δὲ καὶ τὰ τῶν τοίχων αὐτῆς καὶ οἰκοδομημάτων καταπέπτωκεν καὶ τὰ πρόσλοιπα δὲ διαπεφορημένα κινδυνεύει εἰς ἔδα- φος κατενεχθῆναι, πολλάκις τε περὶ τῆ[ς] κατασκευῆς αὐτῆς καὶ ἐπισκευῆς πανδημεὶ καταβοήσεις ἐγένον- το ἀναγκαίου ὄντος τοῦ ἔργου πρὸς ὅλον τὸν τῆς πόλεως κόσμον τε καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν καὶ πολυτέλειαν, διὰ τὸ μηδὲν ἕτερον τοιοῦτον ἐν αὐτῇ ὑπάρχειν ἔργον, καὶ μηδενὸς 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 ἄλλα καταρειπτούμενα ὑπισχνοῦμαι, ὁποῖον ἂν καὶ ὁπόσον ὁ καιρός μοι ἐπιτρέψῃ καὶ ἡ τύχη τῆς πόλεως, κατ[αστή]σας αὐτὸ ἀποδοῦναι τῇ πόλει σῷον 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

  • 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, 2.4.133 (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, 2.4.121 (54)

    Cicero
    In hac partitione ornatus non plus victoria Marcelli populo Romano appetivit quam humanitas Syracusanis reservavit.

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

  • In Verrem, 2.2.86 (35)

    Cicero
    Etenim ut simul Africani quoque humanitatem et aequitatem cognoscatis, oppidum Himeram Carthaginienses quondam ceperant, quod fuerat in primis Siciliae clarum et ornatum.

    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

  • In Verrem, 2.1.55 (21)

    Cicero
    Quid ego de M. Marcello loquar, qui Syracusas urbem ornatissimam cepit?

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

  • De provinciis consularibus, 6 (4)

    Cicero
    Ipsam vero urbem Byzantiorum fuisse refertissimam atque ornatissimam signis quis ignorat?

    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, deliberans que 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

  • Breviarium ab urbe condita 4.14.2

    Eutropius
    tres igitur Romae simul celeberrimi triumphi fuerunt: Africani ex Africa, ante cuius currum ductus est Hasdrubal, Metelli ex Macedonia, cuius currum praecessit Andriscus, idem qui et Pseudophilippus, Mummii ex Corintho, ante quem signa aenea et pictae tabulae et alia urbis clarissimae ornamenta praelata sunt.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century CE

  • Breviarium ab urbe condita 4.12.1

    Eutropius
    spolia ibi inventa, quae variarum civitatum excidiis Carthago collegerat, et ornamenta urbium civitatibus Siciliae, Italiae, Africae reddidit, quae sua recognoscebant.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century CE

  • Liviani operis periochae 52.64

    Unknown
    ipse L. Mummius abstinentissimum virum egit, nec quicquam ex his operibus ornamentisque, quae praedives Corinthos habuit, in domum eius pervenit.

    Text Category: Literature: prose

  • Odes 12.7

    Bacchylides
    ἐς γὰρ ὀλβίαν ξείνοισί με πότνια Νίκα νᾶσον Αἰγίνας ἀπάρχει ἐλθόντα κοσμῆσαι θεόδματον πόλιν

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE

  • Hist. Abderita, Fragmenta, Fragment 25 line 380

    Hecataeus of Abdera
    τὸν μὲν οὖν περίβολον αὐτὸν ὑποστήσασθαι σταδίων ἑκατὸν καὶ τετταράκοντα, οἰκοδομήμασι δὲ μεγάλοις καὶ ναοῖς ἐκπρεπέσι καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀναθήμασι κοσμῆσαι θαυμαστῶς

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE

  • Hist. Abderita, Fragmenta, Fragment 25 line 395

    Hecataeus of Abdera
    ἀναθήμασί τε γὰρ πολλοῖς καὶ μεγάλοις ἀργυροῖς καὶ χρυσοῖς, ἔτι δ᾿ ἐλεφαντίνοις, καὶ κολοττικῶν ἀνδριάντων πλήθει, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις κατασκευαῖς μονολίθων ὀβελίσκων μηδεμίαν τῶν 2ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον οὕτω κεκοσμῆσθαι.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE

  • Hist. Abderita, Fragmenta, Fragment 25 line 1053.

    Hecataeus of Abdera
    Τοιγαροῦν πλεῖστον μὲν χρόνον τῶν μνημονευομένων βασιλέων πολιτικὴν κατάστασιν ἐτήρησαν, εὐδαιμονέστατον δὲ βίον ἔχοντες διετέλεσαν, ἕως ἔμεινεν ἡ προειρημένη τῶν νόμων σύνταξις, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις ἐθνῶν τε πλείστων ἐπεκράτησαν καὶ μεγίστους πλούτους ἔσχον, καὶ τὰς μὲν χώρας ἔργοις καὶ κατασκευάσμασιν ἀνυπερβλήτοις, τὰς δὲ πόλεις ἀναθήμασι πολυτελέσι καὶ παντοίοις ἐκόσμησαν.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE

  • P.Strasb. 3 138

    Flavius Asklepiades
    χείας(*) ἐπὶ τοῦ λιθοστρώτου [ -ca.?- ] ̣αρ ̣ ̣ν τῶν βιβλίων ἐπιστελ- [λω](*) [ὑμῖν ἵνα ε]ἰδῆτε(*) καὶ σπουδάσητε ἀν̣α- [ -ca.?- ] ὑπὲρ τοῦ τὴν πόλιν τὸν ἴ(*)δι- [ον κόσμον ἔχε]ιν(*) πλησιαζούσης μάλιστα [τῆς λαμπροτ]άτης (?)(*) ἡμέρας τῶν Οὐικεναλλίων [τοῦ πάντα νι]κ̣ῶντος δεσπότου ἡμῶν [Κωνσταντί]νου τοῦ αἰωνίου βασιλέως

    Text Category: Papyrus
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 325
    Location: Hermopolis

  • P.Oxy. 43 3088

    Flavius Titianus
    ἀποδέχομαι ὑμᾶς τὴν πατρί̣δ̣α̣ κοσμεῖν προῃρημένο̣υ̣ς̣ κ̣αὶ ἐ̣π̣ι̣τ̣ρ̣[έ]π̣ω̣ κατασκευάζειν τὸ βαλανεῖο̣ν̣ ἔ̣κ̣ τε τῶν ἤδη σ̣υ̣νειλεγμένων χρη- μάτων, ὥς̣ φατε, καὶ ἐξ ὧν̣ ἄν ̣ ̣ ̣

    Text Category: Papyrus
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 128
    Location: Oxyrhynchos

  • P.Harrauer 36

    senate of Heromopolis
    ἡ πολιτικὴ ἀγορὰ καὶ [πρὸς κό-] σμον τῆς πόλε̣ω̣ς̣ ἄρισ[τον οἰκοδό-] μημα καὶ πρὸς ὠ̣φ̣[έλειαν οὐκ ὀ-] λίγα συμβάλλετ[αι] π̣ρ̣ο̣[σόδους παρέχου(?)-] σα ἀπὸ τῶν μισθουμ̣[ένων ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]

    Text Category: Papyrus
    Century Range: 3rd century CE
    Date: 269-270
    Location: Hermopolis

  • P. Harris 2 197

    Unknown
    [ -ca.?- Λου]κρητίωι Βλάνδωι τριηράρχωι [πολλὰ χαίρειν -ca.?- ] [ -ca.?- πρὸ πολλοῦ κελε]ύσαντος τοῦ διασημοτάτου ἡγε[μόνος -ca.?- ] [ -ca.?- πλοῖα (?)-ca.?- ἀ]ναπέμψαι εἰς Ἀκῶριν πρὸς κα[ταγωγὴν λίθων -ca.?-(?)] [ -ca.?- εἰς] κόσμον τῆς λαμπροτάτης τῶν [Ἀλεξανδρέων πόλεως -ca.?- ]

    Text Category: Papyrus
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 169-176
    Location: Egypt

  • Orations 25.49

    Aelius Aristides
    ἂν τοῦτο ἑστηκὸς ᾖ, Ῥόδος ἕστηκε τοῖς ὀρθῶς ὁρῶσιν, ἐπεὶ καὶ αὐτὰ τὰ τείχη καὶ τὰ νεώρια καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους κόσμους τοὺς μετὰ τούτων φρόνημα ἄνδρες ἔχοντες ἐκτήσαντο καὶ λογισμοὺς οἵους χρὴ περὶ πραγμάτων, καὶ ἦν ταῦτα ἀναθήματα τῆς ἐκείνων τῶν ἀνδρῶν γνώμης, οἳ ζήλου καὶ τῆς ἐπὶ τοῖς καλοῖς φιλοτιμίας ἕνεκα πάντας μὲν πόνους ᾠήθησαν, πάντας δὲ κινδύνους ὑποστῆναι δεῖν, ἐξ ὧν ἔπλευσαν μὲν ἅπασαν ὅση πλόϊμος θάλατταν, ἠγωνίσαντο δὲ καὶ καθ᾽ αὑτοὺς καὶ ἐν συμμαχίαις πολλοὺς καὶ μεγάλους καὶ ἐνδόξους ἀγῶνας:

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 143
    Location: Rhodes

  • Orations 25.52

    Aelius Aristides
    οἱ μὲν γὰρ οὐδ᾽ ἡντινοῦν ἔχοντες ἀφορμὴν παρὰ τοῦ τόπου, οὐ λιμένας, οὐκ εἰκόνας, οὐ κόσμους, οὐ λίθους, ὡς εἰπεῖν, ἐν πολλῇ βουλῇ καὶ ἀπορίᾳ καταστάντες οἶμαι πρῶτον ποῖ ποτε τῆς χώρας οἰκήσουσιν, οὕτω ταύτην ἀπέδειξαν, καὶ τὸ μέγιστον ἁπάντων, πρὸς οὐδὲν ὑπάρχον παράδειγμα, ἀλλ᾽ εὑρόντες αὐτοὶ καὶ προθέντες πρῶτοι καθάπερ ὡς ἀληθῶς παράδειγμα πόλεως.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 143
    Location: Rhodes

  • Orations 25.5

    Aelius Aristides
    τεμένη δὲ θεῶν καὶ ἱερὰ καὶ ἀγάλματα τοσαῦτα μὲν τὸ πλῆθος, τηλικαῦτα δὲ τὸ μέγεθος, τοιαῦτα δὲ τὸ κάλλος, ὥστ᾽ ἄξια εἶναι τῶν ἄλλων ἔργων χαριστήρια, καὶ ὡς μὴ εἶναι διακρῖναι τί τις αὐτῶν μᾶλλον θαυμάσειεν: ὧν γε καὶ ἓν τὸ τυχὸν ἱκανὴν ἑτέρᾳ πόλει φιλοτιμίαν εἶχεν. ἐπὶ δὲ τούτοις εἰκόνας μὲν χαλκᾶς πρὸς ἁπάσας τὰς ἐν τῇ λοιπῇ Ἑλλάδι, γραφὰς δὲ τέχνης πάσης ἄλλας ἀλλαχοῦ τῆς πόλεως ἀνακειμένας, καὶ κόσμους τοὺς μὲν μόνους ὄντας ἐνταῦθα, τοὺς δὲ καλλίστους

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 143
    Location: Rhodes