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• 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

• 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 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, 2.4.133 (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

• 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, 2.4.71 (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

• 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

• Epitoma historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi 19.3.2

  Justin

  Ipse quoque manus ad caelum tendens nunc sortem suam, nunc publicam fortunam deflet; nuncdeos accusat, qui tanta belli decora et tot ornamenta victoriarum, quae ipsi dederant,abstulerint; qui captis tot urbibus totiens que hostibus terrestri navali que proelio victis exercitumvictorem non bello, sed peste deleverint.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

• Breviarium ab urbe condita 4.14.2

  Eutropius

  tres igitur Romae simul celeberrimi triumphi fuerunt: Africani ex Africa, ante cuius currum ductusest Hasdrubal, Metelli ex Macedonia, cuius currum praecessit Andriscus, idem qui etPseudophilippus, Mummii ex Corintho, ante quem signa aenea et pictae tabulae et alia urbisclarissimae 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 urbiumcivitatibus 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

• On Idolatry 8.1-3

  Tertullian

  Nec enim differt, an extruas vel exornes, si templum, si aram, si aediculam eius instruxeris, si bratteam expresseris aut insignia aut etiam domum fabricaveris. Maior est eiusmodi opera, quae non effigiem confert, sed auctoritatem. Si ita necessitas exhibitionis extenditur, habent et alias species, quae sine exorbitatione disciplinae id est sine idoli confictura opem victus praestent. Scit albarius tector et tecta sarcire et tectoria inducere et cisternam liare et cymatia distendere et multa alia ornamenta ||f110 praeter simulacra parietibus incrispare. Scit et pictor et marmorarius et aerarius et quicumque caelator latitudines suas et utique multo faciliores.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

• Dialexeis/ Dissoi logoi, On Seemly and Unseemly, 2.13 (Fragment 2 line 23)

  Unknown

  τοῖς δὲ Θραιξὶ κόσμος τὰς κόρας στίζεσθαι· τοῖς δ’ ἄλλοις τιμωρία τὰ στίγματα τοῖς ἀδικέοντι.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 5th century BCE

• Fragment 1 line 2

  Melanthius

  αὑτοῦ γὰρ δαπάναισι θεῶν ναοὺς ἀγοράν τεΚεκροπίαν κόσμησ᾽ ἡμιθέων ἀρεταῖς.

  Text Category: Literature: poetry

  Century Range: 5th century BCE

• Hist, Fragmenta Fragment 64 line 5

  Duris of Samos

  πολλαῖς μὲν ἀσπίσι καὶ λαφύροις κύκλῳ κεκοσμημένων τῶν Ἀττικῶν τριήρων, πολλὰς δ᾽ ἐφελκόμενος αἰχμαλώτους, ἔτι δὲ πλείω κομίζων ἀκροστόλια τῶν διεφθαρμένων ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ καὶ κεκρατημένων

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

• Fragment 79 line 1

  Philemon

  ἐλαφρὸν τὸ γένος γάρ ἐστι καὶ λίαν κακόν. ὅταν τινὰ τάφον στεφανοῖς κόσμῳ ποικίλῳ, τὸ ζῆν τὸ σαυτοῦ στεφάνοις παρηγόρει.

  Text Category: Literature: poetry

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

  Location: Athens

• SB 14 11858

  Heraclius, presbyter

  ἐγὼ Ἡράκλειος πρ(εσβύτερος) ὁμολογῶ ἐσχη-κέναι παρά σου τὴν βίβλον εἰςκόσμησιν ἐπεὶ(*) τῷ με πάλιν εἴσωμην̣ὸ̣ς ἀποκαταστῆσαί σοιἄνευ̣ ε̣ὑρεσιλογίας.

  Text Category: Papyrus

  Century Range: 4th century CE

  Location: Egypt

• 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

• Orations 22.10

  Aelius Aristides

  πλάσματα τοίνυν καὶ γραφὰς καὶ τὸν κύκλῳ κόσμον τοῦτον τίς ἂν οὐχὶ καὶ ἐν ταῖς τριόδοις ὁρῶν ἐγανώθη, μή τί γε δὴ ἐν προσθήκῃ τῶν σεμνοτέρων εἶδεν;

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Date: 171

  Location: Smyrna