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  • Iasos 287

    Unknown
    ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος τὸ ἄγαλμα Κυδίου τρὶς Νεί- κωνος, προγόνων γενο- μένου λιτουργῶν, πολ- λὴν ἐπιμέλειαν ποιη- σαμένου ἤθους καὶ παιδείας, καὶ δι’ αὐτῶν κοσμήσαντος τὴν πό- λιν, καὶ βιώσαντος σε- μνῶς καὶ ἐναρέτως, μνήμης ἕνεκεν ἀγα- θῆς, ἀναστήσαντος τὸ ἄγαλμα Κυδίου τοῦ Νεί- κωνος φύσει δὲ Κυδί- ου τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ.

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Location: Caria: Iasos

  • IG XII,9 906

    Unknown
    (I) ἐπὶ ἡγεμόνος Κλ(αυδίου) Ἀμιάντου, ἀμφιπολεύοντος Λαμύρου τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ νεωκόρου, ὁ διὰ βίου νεωκόρος τῆς ἀρχηγέτι- δος Χαλκίδος Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἑρμόδωρος κατὰ τὰ γενόμενα ψηφί- σματα ἐν τοῖς συνεδρίοις εἰσηγησαμένων τοῦ δεκαπρώτου Κλ(αυδίου) Ἀμύντου καὶ Οὐλπίου Παμφίλου διά τε τὰ τειχοδομή- ματα ἃ ἐποίησεν περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ τὸν περίβολον ὃν πε- ριέθηκε τῷ τεμένει καὶ στοάν, ἣν μὲν ἐκ καινῆς κατεσκεύ- ασεν, ἣν δὲ ἐπεσκεύασεν συντετρειμμένην, καὶ τρίκλει- νον δειπνιστήριον ποιήσας καὶ θυρώσας εἰς κό- σμον τὸν πρέποντα τῇ θεῷ μετὰ φυτῶν καὶ ἄλσους ἀνέθηκεν ἐπὶ τῷ ἀΐδιον ἔχειν αὐτόν τε καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ τὴν νεωκορείαν v (II) τὰ ψηφίσματα ἐγένον- το γραμματεύοντος Ἰουλίου Μαμερτείνου, στρα- τηγοῦντος τοῦ δεκαπρώτου Λ(ευκίου) Νοουίου Λυσανίου ἐβ(όησαν) οἱ σύνεδροι.

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 3rd century CE
    Location: Euboea: Chalkis

  • IG XII,3 325

    Unknown
    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

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 149
    Location: Thera

  • IG VII 2539

    Unknown
    τούτου κουριδίη ἄλοχος καὶ [κ]εδνὰ εἰδυῖα     ἔστησ’ Εὔπραξις, κῦδος ἑῇ πατρίδι. οὐ γάρ τις κατὰ γαῖαν, ὅσαις Διόθεν γένος [ἐστί],       μείζονα τῇδε πόλει κόσμον ἔθηκε γυν[ή].

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 3rd century CE
    Location: Boeotia: Thebes

  • Corinth 8, 1, 89

    Unknown
    [τ]ίς τύπον εἱμερόεντα Ἰούνορος ἀνθυπάτοιο ἥρπασε, τίς μορφὴν τῇδ’ ἐνέγλυψε λίθῳ; μορφὴν λαοτόμος μὲν ἑῇ μειμήσατο τέχνῃ Ἑλλάδι κόσμον ὅλον μητρὶ χαριζόμενος, [σ]τῆσε δ’ ἀγασσάμενός μιν ἀμύμων Εὐτυχιανὸς [ἀ]ντὶ κασιγνήτου εὖ δείπων Ἐφύρην.                   vacat ψ(ηφίσματι)               β(ουλῆς).

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Corinth

  • IG II² 1102

    Unknown
    ἴστε ὡς πάσαις χρῶμαι προφάσεσιν τοῦ εὐ ποιεῖν καὶ δημοσίᾳ τὴν πόλιν καὶ ἰδίᾳ Ἀθηναίων τινάς· τοῖς παισὶν ὑμῶν τοῖς̣ [τε νέοις τὸ γυμνάσ]ιον δίδωμι πρὸς τῷ κόσμ- ον̣ [γενέσθαι τῇ πόλει καὶ ․․ τ]άλαντα ἐπι[δίδω]- [μι

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 131-132
    Location: Athens

  • Noctes Atticae, 15.31.1

    Aulus Gellius
    Rodum insulam celebritatis antiquissimae oppidumque in ea pulcherrimum ornatissimumque obsidebat obpugnabatque Demetrius ...

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Noctes Atticae, 13.25.9

    Aulus Gellius
    “Quod auri, quod argenti, quod ornamentorum in meis urbibus, sedibus, delubris fuit.”

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 29.4

    Suetonius
    Sed et ceteros principes viros saepe hortatus est, ut pro facultate quisque monimentis vel novis vel refectis et excultis urbem adornarent.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 28.3

    Suetonius
    Urbem neque pro maiestate imperii ornatam et inundationibus incendiisque obnoxiam excoluit adeo, ut iure sit gloriatus marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • De vita Caesarum 1: Julius, 44.1

    Suetonius
    Nam de ornanda instruendaque urbe, item de tuendo ampliandoque imperio plura ac maiora in dies destinabat: in primis Martis templum quantum nusquam esset, exstruere repleto et conplanato lacu, in quo naumachiae spectaculum ediderat, theatrumque summae magnitudinis Tarpeio monti accubans;

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • De vita Caesarum 1: Julius, 28.1

    Suetonius
    superque Italiae Galliarumque et Hispaniarum, Asiae quoque et Graeciae potentissimas urbes praecipuis operibus exornans;

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome

  • Epistulae, 10.70.1

    Pliny the Younger
    Per hoc enim consequemur, ut foedissima facies civitatis ornetur, atque etiam ut ipsa civitas amplietur nec ulla aedificia tollantur, sed quae sunt vetustate sublapsa relaxentur in melius.

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

  • Epistulae, 6.18.1

    Pliny the Younger
    Cupio enim et ornatissimam coloniam advocationis officio ...

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

  • Historia Naturalis, 29.8 (5)

    Pliny the Elder
    par et fratri eius merces a Claudio Caesare infusa est, censusque, quamquam exhausti operibus Neapoli exornata, heredi H͞S͞ c͞c͞c͞ reliquere

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

  • Strategmata, 4.3.15

    Frontinus
    L. Mummius, qui Corintho capta non Italiam solum sed etiam provincias tabulis statuisque exornavit, adeo nihil ex tantis manubiis in suum convertit, ut filiam eius inopem senatus ex publico dotaverit.

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

  • Institutio oratoria, 5.11.7

    Quintilian
    Marcellus ornamenta Syracusanis hostibus restituit, Verres eadem sociis abstulit.

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

  • Annales, 1.9

    Tacitus
    … urbem ipsam magnifico ornatu ...

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

  • Divi Claudii apocolocyntosis, 10

    Seneca the Younger
    Ideo legibus urbem fundavi, operibus ornavit ...

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

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 3.7.ext.5

    Valerius Maximus
    mirifica deinde procuratione abiectissimum negotium pro amplissimo ornamento expetendum Thebis reddidit.

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

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 4.3.22

    Quintus Curtius
    Syracusis id simulacrum devexerant Poeni et in maiore locaverant patria multisque aliis spoliis urbium a semet captarum non Carthaginem magis quam Tyrum ornaverant.

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

  • Historiae Romanae, 2.89.4

    Velleius Paterculus
    Principes viri triumphisque et amplissimis honoribus functi adhortatu principis ad ornandam urbem inlecti sunt.

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

  • Epistulae ad Atticum, 5.10 (103) 5

    Cicero
    valde me Athenae delectarunt, urbe dumtaxat et urbis ornamento et hominum amore in te, in nos quadam benevolentia;

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

  • De republica, 1.21 (14)

    Cicero
    … quam M. Marcelli avus captis Syracusis ex urbe locupletissima atque ornatissima sustulisset ...

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

  • Pro Sestio, 94 (44)

    Cicero
    … neque tamen ullo in publico aut religioso loco signum aut tabulam aut ornamentum reliquisse ...

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